{"id":223265,"date":"2025-10-11T16:03:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T21:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-create-nanofluidic-chip-with-brain-like-memory-pathways"},"modified":"2025-10-11T16:03:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T21:03:03","slug":"scientists-create-nanofluidic-chip-with-brain-like-memory-pathways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-create-nanofluidic-chip-with-brain-like-memory-pathways","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create nanofluidic chip with \u2018brain-like\u2019 memory pathways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-nanofluidic-chip-with-brain-like-memory-pathways2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Monash University have created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adw7882\" target=\"_blank\">a tiny fluid-based chip<\/a> that behaves like neural pathways of the brain, potentially opening the door to a new generation of computers.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly the size of a coin, the chip was built from a specially designed metal-organic framework (MOF), and channels ions through tiny pathways, mimicking the on\/off switching of electronic transistors in computers.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike conventional computer chips, it can also \u201cremember\u201d previous signals, mimicking the plasticity of neurons in the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Monash University have created a tiny fluid-based chip that behaves like neural pathways of the brain, potentially opening the door to a new generation of computers. Roughly the size of a coin, the chip was built from a specially designed metal-organic framework (MOF), and channels ions through tiny pathways, mimicking the on\/off switching [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223265","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}