{"id":236632,"date":"2026-05-06T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/printed-neurons-just-talked-to-living-brain-cells"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:22:21","slug":"printed-neurons-just-talked-to-living-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/printed-neurons-just-talked-to-living-brain-cells","title":{"rendered":"Printed Neurons Just Talked to Living 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\/TAEkMB75n-U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Printed artificial neurons reported by Northwestern University can produce neuron-like electrical spikes and trigger responses in living mouse brain tissue. This video explains what was shown, why it matters for brain-like computing and future neural interfaces, and why it is still early laboratory research, not a human implant.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<br \/> Northwestern Now: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories\">https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories<\/a>\u2026 <\/p>\n<li>Nature Nanotechnology: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/natnanotech\/\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/natnanotech\/<\/a> <\/li>\n<p> Subscribe for clear, cinematic science stories in about five minutes.<br \/> Nature Nanotechnology: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/natnanotech\/\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/natnanotech\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for clear, cinematic science stories in about five minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Printed artificial neurons reported by Northwestern University can produce neuron-like electrical spikes and trigger responses in living mouse brain tissue. This video explains what was shown, why it matters for brain-like computing and future neural interfaces, and why it is still early laboratory research, not a human implant. Sources: Northwestern Now: https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories\u2026 Nature Nanotechnology: https:\/\/www.nature.com\/natnanotech\/ [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236632","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=236632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}