{"id":103574,"date":"2020-03-10T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-linked-artificial-and-biological-neurons-in-a-network-and-amazingly-it-worked"},"modified":"2020-03-10T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T00:03:08","slug":"scientists-linked-artificial-and-biological-neurons-in-a-network-and-amazingly-it-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-linked-artificial-and-biological-neurons-in-a-network-and-amazingly-it-worked","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Linked Artificial and Biological Neurons in a Network\u2014and Amazingly, It Worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-linked-artificial-and-biological-neurons-in-a-network-and-amazingly-it-worked2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This month, an international team put all of those ingredients together, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-020-58831-9\/\">turning theory into reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The three labs, scattered across Padova, Italy, Zurich, Switzerland, and Southampton, England, collaborated to create a fully self-controlled, hybrid artificial-biological neural network that communicated using biological principles, but over the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The three-neuron network, linked through artificial synapses that emulate the real thing, was able to reproduce a classic neuroscience experiment that\u2019s considered the basis of learning and memory in the brain. In other words, artificial neuron and synapse \u201cchips\u201d have progressed to the point where they can actually use a biological neuron intermediary to form a circuit that, at least partially, behaves like the real thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, an international team put all of those ingredients together, turning theory into reality. The three labs, scattered across Padova, Italy, Zurich, Switzerland, and Southampton, England, collaborated to create a fully self-controlled, hybrid artificial-biological neural network that communicated using biological principles, but over the internet. The three-neuron network, linked through artificial synapses that emulate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,418,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-internet","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}