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BRAIN Grown in Petri Dish Flies Flight Simulator

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Saturday, June 24, 2006
18 years ago2,365 views

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/11/02/brain.dish/

A Florida scientist has developed a "brain" in a glass dish that is capable of flying a virtual fighter plane and could enhance medical understanding of neural disorders such as epilepsy.

The "living computer" was grown from 25,000 neurons extracted from a rat's brain and arranged over a grid of 60 electrodes in a Petri dish.
The brain cells then started to reconnect themselves, forming microscopic interconnections,

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