How many brain cells does it take to play a game of Doom?

Scientists have successfully connected living human brain cells to a computer system and taught them to interact with the classic video game DOOM. The strange experiment marks a new step toward ...

Scientists have created a digital fruit fly brain simulation using a mapped connectome and AI, letting the virtual insect ...

Scientists have achieved the first full upload of a fly brain, with the digital copy controlling a virtual body in a physics ...

In a wild experiment, it turns out a few human neurons linked up to some custom silicon can actually play Doom.

Human brain cells are now interacting with computer systems, learning to play video games like Doom. Researchers have ...

No body, no dopamine, no problem. Scientists have successfully coached lab-grown brain tissue to solve a classic robotics challenge, proving that the will to learn is hardwired into our neurons.

The Allen Institute for Brain Science and the Blue Brain Project are deepening their collaboration. Today, the US-based Allen Institute is releasing a set of 40 computer models of neurons from the ...

Recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities for the development of smart prosthetics, such as artificial limbs, joints or organs that can replace injured, damaged or amputated ...

The findings come from the most comprehensive computer model of brain metabolism to date, which incorporates more than 16,800 biochemical interactions between proteins and chemicals across brain cells ...