Human Brain Cell Network Plays Pong in Stunning New Study
Human Brain Cell Network Plays Pong in Stunning New Study Imagine a tiny brain floating in fluid, learning to play a video game—not by watching or mimicking, but by actually interacting with it. Sounds like science fiction, right? Well, it’s not anymore. In an astonishing scientific breakthrough, researchers successfully grew a human brain cell network in a lab. These cells didn’t just sit in a dish looking smart—they actually learned to play the classic video game Pong . Yes, the very same game from the '70s where a lone paddle hits a bouncing ball back and forth! What Exactly Happened? Scientists started by growing about 800,000 human brain cells from stem cells. These brain cells were then placed on a special dish equipped with a microelectrode array . This dish had the ability to both send messages to and receive electrical signals from the cells. Now here's where it gets really cool. The rules of the game Pong were translated into simple electrical signals. The paddle’s ...