{"id":238101,"date":"2026-05-31T18:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/researchers-teach-brain-cells-to-play-doom"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:04:25","slug":"researchers-teach-brain-cells-to-play-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/researchers-teach-brain-cells-to-play-doom","title":{"rendered":"Researchers teach brain cells to play \u2018Doom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-teach-brain-cells-to-play-doom.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigadores ense\u00f1an a las c\u00e9lulas cerebrales a jugar a \u2018Doom\u2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game \u201cDoom\u201d and say they are just scratching the surface of what the neurons could be capable of doing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the science-fiction work of biotech boffins at Cortical Labs, who researched and developed the technology that harnesses the workings of the brain\u2019s networking system.<\/p>\n<p>Each so-called \u201cbiological computer\u201d contains around 200,000 living human brain cells, grown from stem cells that were harvested from blood donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigadores ense\u00f1an a las c\u00e9lulas cerebrales a jugar a \u2018Doom\u2019 Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game \u201cDoom\u201d and say they are just scratching the surface of what the neurons could be capable of doing. It\u2019s the science-fiction work of biotech boffins at Cortical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238101","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=238101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}