{"id":223618,"date":"2025-10-18T04:14:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/wetware-scientists-use-human-mini-brains-to-power-computers"},"modified":"2025-10-18T04:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:14:26","slug":"wetware-scientists-use-human-mini-brains-to-power-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/wetware-scientists-use-human-mini-brains-to-power-computers","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wetware\u2019: Scientists use human mini-brains to power computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wetware-scientists-use-human-mini-brains-to-power-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inside a lab in the picturesque Swiss town of Vevey, a scientist gives tiny clumps of human brain cells the nutrient-rich fluid they need to stay alive.<\/p>\n<p>It is vital these <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/mini-brains\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mini-brains<\/a> remain healthy, because they are serving as rudimentary computer processors\u2014and, unlike your laptop, once they die, they cannot be rebooted.<\/p>\n<p>This new field of research, called biocomputing or \u201cwetware,\u201d aims to harness the evolutionarily honed yet still mysterious computing power of the human brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside a lab in the picturesque Swiss town of Vevey, a scientist gives tiny clumps of human brain cells the nutrient-rich fluid they need to stay alive. It is vital these mini-brains remain healthy, because they are serving as rudimentary computer processors\u2014and, unlike your laptop, once they die, they cannot be rebooted. This new field [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223618","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=223618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}