Cortical labs introduce the commercial “brain to test tube” CL1, which combines a person’s living cells with silicone microcircuits.
Australia’s startup Cortical Labs introduced the world’s first commercial affordable biological computing platform. According to the IEEE spectrum, a installation called CL1 combines human neurons with a silicon chip, which allows cells to study in real time, adapt and process information through de -electric impulses with millisecond delays.
The device is intended for research in the field of neuroc, biotechnology and modeling of diseases. It contains 800 thousand living neurons grown from skin cells or blood donors. Cells remain the ability to take up to six months thanks to the built -in life support system, which provides nutrients, controls the temperature, cleanses the liquid and filter waste.
Photo: Cortical Labs
Neurons grown in the laboratory live in a set of electrodes
According to the chief scientific director of the company Brett Magan, CL1 allows you to enter signals in the form of electrical impulses and monitor cell reactions in response, making it possible to create a closed environment for experiments – from testing drugs to brain studies.
The CL1 is an alternative to the famous dishbrain prototype, which is directed to play Ping Pong in 2021. In the tests of its neurons, some algorithms of artificial intelligence in speed and effectiveness exceed its neurons.
In the long run, the company wants to create bioenger intelligence, which can potentially overcome the human natural brain in certain activities, while the remaining energy -isstruk, self -regulatory and sustainable.
Now the cortical labs team has 22 people. The onset attracts more than 11 million dollars of investments from funds from Australia, Hong Kong and the USA.
Although the company does not limit device use areas, consumers must have appropriate laboratory conditions and ethical approvement for working in human cells. “This is not what can be launched in your garage,” Magan emphasized.
115 of the first units of CL1 will be sold this time to a sum of $ 35,000 per unit. In addition to selling devices, cortical labs offer a long access to its platform for $ 300 per week per unit.
We remind you, earlier it was reported that scientists first reproduced the nervous contour of the brain.
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