A ROBOT controlled by human brain cells could soon be trundling around a British lab, Â鶹´«Ã½ has learned.
and at the University of Reading, UK, have already used rat brain cells to control a robot (Â鶹´«Ã½, 16 August 2008, p 22). This has enabled them to investigate the way groups of neurons behave, and they hope their research will shed light on neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s.
However, human brain cells are a better model for studying human neurological disease. So the team plan to switch to a culture of human neurons once…
