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“On a warm Melbourne day late last year, hundreds of thousands of live human #BrainCells sat inside a box on a table in #Brunswick.”

Biological computer 🧠

#Science / #neurons / #BrettKagan / #StartUp / #CorticalLabs / #Melbourne <https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-05/cortical-labs-neuron-brain-chip/104996484>

Melbourne start-up launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells

In 2022, a Melbourne start-up announced they’d taught neurons in a dish to play Pong. Now, they’re selling a "biological computer" made of thousands of human neurons.

ABC News
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“lab-grown human neurons” 🧠

How?

“The neurons are made in the #lab in a process which turns #BloodCells back into stem cells — cells that can develop into many different types of #cells — which are then turned into #neurons. …[They're] grown from induced #StemCells that are generated from a small amount of #blood from volunteers,"

Mar 6 at 12:55amWeb
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@peterrenshaw I feel this going in a very, very bad direction.
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@bluetea same here.

I was surprised WHERE it was occurring. Brunswick is an old Industrial, now mostly residential area is outside the Medical expertise of the City BioMed precinct [Florey, Melb. Uni, CSIRO, Doherty, Walter Eliza, CSL, Murdoch, Bio21, Baker, McCallum & the numerous Hospitals and Educational institutions]. 1/

The HOW is questionable. Cell quality may have unknown side effects for this type of usage.

source
1/ https://www.melbournebiomed.com/the-precinct/maps/