{"id":155027,"date":"2023-01-10T00:22:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T06:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/how-bio-inspired-materials-might-inform-the-design-of-next-generation-computers"},"modified":"2023-01-10T00:22:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T06:22:45","slug":"how-bio-inspired-materials-might-inform-the-design-of-next-generation-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/how-bio-inspired-materials-might-inform-the-design-of-next-generation-computers","title":{"rendered":"How bio-inspired materials might inform the design of next-generation computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-bio-inspired-materials-might-inform-the-design-of-next-generation-computers3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ralph Lydic, professor in the UT Department of Psychology, and Dmitry Bolmatov, a research assistant professor in the UT Department of Physics and Astronomy, are part of a UT\/ORNL research team studying how bio-inspired materials might inform the design of next-generation computers. Their results, published recently in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, could have big implications for both edge computing and human health.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at ORNL and UT discovered an artificial <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/cell+membrane\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cell membrane<\/a> is capable of long-term potentiation, or LTP, a hallmark of biological learning and memory. This is the first evidence that a cell <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/membrane\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">membrane<\/a> alone\u2014without proteins or other biomolecules embedded within it\u2014is capable of LTP that persists for many hours. It is also the first identified nanoscale structure in which memory can be encoded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen facilities were shut down as a result of COVID, this led us to pivot away from our usual membrane research,\u201d said John Katsaras, a biophysicist in ORNL\u2019s Neutron Sciences Directorate specializing in neutron scattering and the study of biological membranes at ORNL. \u201cTogether with postdoc Haden Scott, we decided to revisit a system previously studied by Pat Collier and co-workers, this time with an entirely different electrical stimulation protocol that we termed \u2018training.\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Lydic, professor in the UT Department of Psychology, and Dmitry Bolmatov, a research assistant professor in the UT Department of Physics and Astronomy, are part of a UT\/ORNL research team studying how bio-inspired materials might inform the design of next-generation computers. Their results, published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,1523,1495,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-computing","category-health","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155027","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}