Brain on a chip
Filed in archive Research by george elvin on June 17, 2006

The technique, developed at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry,
involves culturing razor-thin slices of the hippocampus region of the brain on semiconductor chips. These chips were developed in collaboration with Infineon Technologies AG and excel in their density of sensory transistors: 16384 transistors on an area of one square millimeter record the neural activity in the brain.
With the resulting novel hybrid system of neural tissue and semiconductor, the scientists take a great step forward towards neurochip prosthetics and neurocomputation. This makes the "brain-chip" a novel test system for brain and drug research. (photo Max-Planck Institute for biochemistry
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