{"id":160811,"date":"2023-03-22T18:23:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T23:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/artificial-neurons-may-repair-damaged-cells-and-circuits"},"modified":"2023-03-22T18:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T23:23:52","slug":"artificial-neurons-may-repair-damaged-cells-and-circuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/artificial-neurons-may-repair-damaged-cells-and-circuits","title":{"rendered":"Artificial neurons may repair damaged cells and circuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-neurons-may-repair-damaged-cells-and-circuits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electronic neurons made from silicon mimic brain cells and could be used to treat autism<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews.org\/news\/toolbox\/artificial-neurons-may-repair-damaged-cells-and-circuits\/#refs\">1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers plan to use the technology in conjunction with machine learning to retrain damaged or atypical neurons and restore function in the brains of people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, autism or other conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Another team attempted to make artificial neurons in 2015 from a conductive organic chemical, but that version oversimplified brain signaling and was too large to implant in a human brain<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews.org\/news\/toolbox\/artificial-neurons-may-repair-damaged-cells-and-circuits\/#refs\">2<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic neurons made from silicon mimic brain cells and could be used to treat autism1. Researchers plan to use the technology in conjunction with machine learning to retrain damaged or atypical neurons and restore function in the brains of people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, autism or other conditions. Another team attempted to make artificial neurons in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160811","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\/160811","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}