Regular computers keep these jobs separate, but Brainoware is different. It combines real human brain tissue with electronics to make a new kind of computer. Behind Brainoware is a team at Indiana University Bloomington, led by Feng Guo. They tested it with tasks like recognising speech and predicting equations.
Dubbed Brainoware, the system learned to identify voices with 78 percent accuracy. It could one day lead to silicon microchips fused with neurons. Brainoware combines brain organoids — stem-cell-derived clusters of human cells morphed into neuron-filled “mini-brains” — with conventional electronic circuits.
In a story ripped from the opening scenes of a sci-fi horror movie, scientists have bridged a critical gap between the biological and electronic. The study, published in Nature Electronics (summarized in Nature), details a “hybrid biocomputer” combining lab-grown human brain tissue with conventional circuits and AI. Dubbed Brainoware, the system learned to identify voices with 78 percent accuracy. It could one day lead to silicon microchips fused with neurons.
Brainoware combines brain organoids — stem-cell-derived clusters of human cells morphed into neuron-filled “mini-brains” — with conventional electronic circuits. To make it, researchers placed “a single organoid onto a plate containing thousands of electrodes to connect the brain to electric circuits.” The circuits, speaking to the brain organoid, “translate the information they want to input into a pattern of electric pulses
Feng Guo is an Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington. His research focuses on intelligent biomedical devices and systems for neurosciences and translational medicine. He has received several awards, including the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the Indiana CTSI GLUE Award, and the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at IU.
The Brainware team at Indiana University Bloomington explores the complexity of the human brain, mind, and behavior. They apply discoveries to real world problems.
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- Psychology Club
- Neuroscience Club
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- Student Organization for Cognitive Science (SOCS)
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