neural tissue engineering

Engineering neural tissues with defined biomaterials to create reproducible brain models for study.

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Growing Computers from Human Brain Cells

Growing Computers from Human Brain Cells
Researchers are wiring lab-grown human neurons to electronics to build low-power, adaptive ‘biocomputers’. Early demonstrations—from Pong-playing neuron cultures to voice‑recognit…
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First fully synthetic human brain model

First fully synthetic human brain model
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have built a two‑millimetre, entirely animal‑free synthetic brain tissue scaffold that supports active neural networks — a s…