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| DATE | 2002-05-02 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: Semiconductor chip with synaptically connected snail neurons
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The snail
Good stuff..
Anyone want a remote control snail...
This is the stuff of Dr Dolittle
On 2002.05.02 11:08 Paul Rodríguez wrote:
> You had asked for more info on this.
>
> - Paul
>
> http://www.mpg.de/english/aktuell/forschung/01_4/mpr01_4_108.pdf
>
> Cross a snail's brain cells with a computer chip and you get a glimpse
> of a genuine cyborg. That's the feat accomplished last spring by Peter
> Fromherz and Günther Zeck at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry
> near Munich. The researchers formed the first working neuroelectronic
> circuit after attaching a gastropod's neuronal network to a
> semiconductor chip. Electrical signals pass from the chip, through a
> small group of interconnected neurons, and back again. Next, they'll use
> slices of rat brain, which function much like human gray matter, to
> study the dynamics of larger groups of neurons. Drug development is one
> near-term application: Blinking transistors on neuron-chip devices would
> indicate a toxic pharmaceutical agent. The bigger challenge is to
> network 15,000 biological circuits into a living computer - the mother
> of all motherboards - something Fromherz admits sounds rather sci-fi.
> "I'll leave it to other generations to dream about neurocomputers," he
> says.
>
> - Mickey Butts
> Wired Magazine
>
> http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-7/iss-6/p6.pdf
>
> http://www.biochem.mpg.de/mnphys/publications/01zecfro/abstract.html
>
> http://tumb1.biblio.tu-muenchen.de/publ/diss/ph/2002/zeck.html
>
>
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