Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding - eviltoast

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  • PaulDevonUK@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Aren’t regions of the brain associated with function? What region is picked for harvesting?

    Brain stem is probably predictable but rather basic.

    • Andy@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      The rat neurons were harvested from the frontal cortex, and the human neurons were harvested from fibroblasts in a baby’s foreskin, and then given chemical signals to make them into stem cells, and then to make those stem cells turn into frontal lobe neurons.