{"id":136005,"date":"2022-02-24T01:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T09:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/scientists-successfully-connect-artificial-neuron-to-biological-cells-in-major-step"},"modified":"2022-02-24T01:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T09:22:36","slug":"scientists-successfully-connect-artificial-neuron-to-biological-cells-in-major-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/scientists-successfully-connect-artificial-neuron-to-biological-cells-in-major-step","title":{"rendered":"Scientists successfully connect \u2018artificial neuron\u2019 to biological cells in major step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-successfully-connect-artificial-neuron-to-biological-cells-in-major-step2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 A major breakthrough.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have successfully implanted an artificial neuron into a Venus Flytrap, in what could be a major breakthrough in the merging of living things and computers.<\/p>\n<p>The neuron was able to control the plant, making its lobes close, the scientists report.<\/p>\n<p>That in turn could be a major step towards the development of brain-machine interfaces as well as intelligent robots, they suggest. Such technology will require computers and living things to combine \u2013 but that has so far proven difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udea8 A major breakthrough. Scientists have successfully implanted an artificial neuron into a Venus Flytrap, in what could be a major breakthrough in the merging of living things and computers. The neuron was able to control the plant, making its lobes close, the scientists report. That in turn could be a major step towards the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136005","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\/638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}