From left to right: Professor Rickie Patani, Director of the Neurobiology Programme at the NUS Life Sciences Institute (LSI) and Chair of the Neuroscience Translational Research Programme (TRP); Jamie Khoo, CEO of DayOne; and Hon Weng Chong, Founder and CEO of Cortical Labs.

The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) is partnering with DayOne, a Singapore-headquartered global data centre developer and operator, and Cortical Labs, a Melbourne-based biological computing startup, to establish a groundbreaking Biological Data Centre prototype at the NUS Life Sciences Institute.

On 6 August 2026, an exclusive showcase of the prototype brought together over 80 guests from the private sector and academia, as well as the technology and digital infrastructure sectors for a first look at this next frontier in computing. Attendees experienced a live demonstration of the CL1/Cortical Cloud computing units, microelectrode array integration, and real-time neural network activity, offering a powerful glimpse into how biology and technology can come together to transform the future of computing.