{"id":132637,"date":"2021-12-18T02:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T10:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/researchers-teach-human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-to-play-pong"},"modified":"2021-12-18T02:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T10:23:21","slug":"researchers-teach-human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-to-play-pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/researchers-teach-human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-to-play-pong","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Teach Human Brain Cells in a Dish to Play \u201cPong\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-teach-human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-to-play-pong3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have successfully taught a collection of human brain cells in a petri dish how to play the video game \u201cPong\u201d \u2014 kind of.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the biotechnology startup Cortical Labs have created \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/scientists-mini-brains-neanderthal-dna\" class=\"\"> mini-brains<\/a> \u201d consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2301500-human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-learn-to-play-pong-faster-than-an-ai\/\" class=\"\"> <i>New Scientist<\/i> reports<\/a>. The cells are placed on top of a microelectrode array that analyzes the neural activity.<\/p>\n<p>We think it\u2019s fair to call them cyborg brains, Brett Kagan, chief scientific officer at Cortical Labs and research lead of the project, told <i>New Scientist.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have successfully taught a collection of human brain cells in a petri dish how to play the video game \u201cPong\u201d \u2014 kind of. Researchers at the biotechnology startup Cortical Labs have created \u201c mini-brains \u201d consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish, New Scientist reports. The cells [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-education","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132637","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}