Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Rat based brain can fly?

Trust me, it is stranger than it sounds.
It sounds like science fiction: a brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of "living" computer. But in groundbreaking experiments in a Florida laboratory that is exactly what is happening.

The "brain", grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a single rat embryo, has been taught to fly an F-22 jet simulator by scientists at the University of Florida.

You read that right. A brain grown from a rat cell in a petri dish learned to pilot a plane. What is this world coming to...

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