{"id":238042,"date":"2026-05-30T03:34:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/lab-grown-brain-organoids-power-biocomputers"},"modified":"2026-05-30T03:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:34:28","slug":"lab-grown-brain-organoids-power-biocomputers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/lab-grown-brain-organoids-power-biocomputers","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown brain organoids power biocomputers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-grown-brain-organoids-power-biocomputers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A feature story authored by Simon Spichak, MSc investigates how biotech companies like Cortical Labs and FinalSpark harness human brain cells to electrodes, performing computational functions and testing the cells\u2019 responses to electrical and chemical stimuli. To create biocomputers, scientists grow organoids\u2014small spheres of, in this case, neural tissue\u2014on top of multi-electrode arrays in a hardware shell, which can then be used for everything from testing medications to playing video games. The work is published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A feature story authored by Simon Spichak, MSc investigates how biotech companies like Cortical Labs and FinalSpark harness human brain cells to electrodes, performing computational functions and testing the cells\u2019 responses to electrical and chemical stimuli. To create biocomputers, scientists grow organoids\u2014small spheres of, in this case, neural tissue\u2014on top of multi-electrode arrays in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1523,418,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-internet","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238042","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}