Inside the data centres built with lab-grown human brain cells Could bio data centres powered by neurons be the key to curing diseases? Lucas Chancellor reports Evening Standard · Sep 30
A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't' Coming soon to ranked matches near you. PC Gamer · Mar 9
‘200,000 living human neurons’ on a microchip demonstrated playing Doom — Cortical Labs CL1 video shows the gameplay and explains how the neurons learn the game Australia’s Cortical Labs has demonstrated its 'body in a box' CL1 biological computer playing Doom. Tom’s Hardware · Mar 1
World's first computer that combines human brain with silicon now available The CL1 computer is the first in the world that combines human neurons with a silicon chip. It could be used in disease modeling and drug discovery before it expires after six months. LiveScience · May 3, 2025
Scientists enable hydrogel to play and improve at Pong video game Researchers say their creation has memory, which it can use to perform better by gaining experience The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2024
Breakthrough Awards: How these four researchers changed science in 2022 These four early-career researchers published work this year that transformed their scientific field forever. Inverse · Dec 30, 2022
This neuroscientist taught brain cells to play Pong — and shifted how we view human intelligence forever In 2022, Brett Kagan and his colleagues published a paper that took the world by storm: Lab-grown brain cells in a dish learned to play the computer game Pong. Inverse · Dec 29, 2022
‘No one had seen anything like it’: how video game Pong changed the world It started as a trick played on a young IT engineer, and has inspired art installations and even social experiments. Its creators – and those they influenced – hail the bleeping genius of a coin-op classic The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2022
Brain cells in dish learn to play video game ISLAMABAD: Neuroscientists have shown that lab-grown brain cells can learn to play the classic video game Pong, and could be capable of "intelligent and sentient behaviour". Bangkok Post · Oct 19, 2022
Brain cells in a lab dish learn to play Pong — and offer a window onto intelligence A dish of brain cells learned to play the 1970s video game Pong. The research could help computers become more intelligent WEKU · Oct 14, 2022
Scientists Grew A ‘sentient Human Brain’ And Taught It To Play Video Games The authors say the study shows brain cells in a dish can exhibit inherent intelligence - the ability to modify their behavior over time. Zenger · Oct 14, 2022
Scientists teach brain cells to play video game Pong Cells were able to play longer rallies over time, with researchers now planning to see how they react when drunk The Guardian - AU · Oct 12, 2022
Human brain grown in lab learns to play classic video game Pong - in just FIVE minutes The experiment sheds light on how grey and white matter works - offering hope of developing new treatments for Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases Daily Mirror · Oct 12, 2022