Computerized brains

                       

                     In a scientific experiment, researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, samples of nerve cells in the process of training, harvested from mice, and were developed to explore the ramifications of semiconductor nano-tubes specifically designed to form a true cross network. 

                    The discovery of the expansive  cerebrospinal cells may stimulate new research methods to neurological disorders. Moreover, further studies could lead to the development of brain-computer interfaces, capable of integrating directly, for example, any kind of prosthesis in the body.

          
                   

           To determine the initial phase of nervo-electronic hybridization, scientists  Justin Williams and Minrui Yu, assisted by colleagues, have created layered tubes of silicon and germanium, materials able to isolate the electrical signals transmitted from one nerve cell. Nanotubes had different shapes and sizes, large enough neuronal so that extensions to make room in them, but too small to allow proper access of the body of any nerve cells. 

          

          When young neural samples were placed  at the entrance of such "tunnels", they began to explore by stretching the tentacles into the tubes, whether straight or winding. At this stage of research, scientists have found that nerve cells are capable and determined to explore biological environments that seem friendly, and their excrescences will follow the network route to physically interconnect .

           However, it became unclear yet if the nerves communicate with each other, sending signals as a functioning body. Future experiments will bring on stage photovoltaic sensors and other devices to allow researchers to better monitor nerve cells. 

           Limited space of small tunnels will be a good environment for measurement, allowing, perhaps, scientists studying the way nerve cells respond to some drugs, or to compare the behavior of healthy neurons to that of abnormal neurons, typical of patients suffering multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's. 

          And the supreme achievement, researchers believe, would be widely entwining of living cells with the technology, bio-engineering and neuroscientific methods that even scholars considered them difficult and hazardous. 

            

by "environment clean generations" 

 

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