{"id":147324,"date":"2022-10-01T01:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-have-built-artificial-neurons-that-fully-mimic-human-brain-cells"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:25:58","slug":"scientists-have-built-artificial-neurons-that-fully-mimic-human-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-have-built-artificial-neurons-that-fully-mimic-human-brain-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Built Artificial Neurons That Fully Mimic Human Brain Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NhTZnnJJP64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers have built the world\u2019s first artificial neuron that\u2019s capable of mimicking the function of an organic brain cell \u2014 including the ability to translate chemical signals into electrical impulses, and communicate with other human cells.<\/p>\n<p>These artificial neurons are the size of a fingertip and contain no \u2018living\u2019 parts, but the team is working on shrinking them down so they can be implanted into humans. This could allow us to effectively replace damaged nerve cells and develop new treatments for neurological disorders, such as spinal cord injuries and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IYl\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Parkinson\u2019s<\/a> disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur artificial neuron is made of conductive polymers and it functions like a human neuron,\u201d lead researcher Agneta Richter-Dahlfors from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cision.com\/karolinska-institutet\/r\/artifical-neuron-mimicks-function-of-human-cells, c9796303\">said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 face_with_colon_three Researchers have built the world\u2019s first artificial neuron that\u2019s capable of mimicking the function of an organic brain cell \u2014 including the ability to translate chemical signals into electrical impulses, and communicate with other human cells. These artificial neurons are the size of a fingertip and contain no \u2018living\u2019 parts, but the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147324","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}