From "Futurelab's Blog" at MIT, a story about how brain damage --
whether *from* cell phone use or *causing* excessive self-important
cell phone use -- might eventually be repaired:
Researchers at the University of Padua in Italy have developed
"neuro-chips" in which living brain cells and silicon circuits
are coupled together.
The scientists squeezed more than 16,000 electronic transistors
and hundreds of capacitors onto a silicon chip just 1 millimeter
square in size. They used proteins found in the brain to glue
neurons onto the chip. The proteins acted as more than just a
simple adhesive.
The proteins allowed the neuro-chip's electronic components and
its living cells to communicate with each other. Electrical
signals from neurons were recorded using the chip's transistors,
while the chip's capacitors were used to stimulate the neurons.
http://blog.futurelab.net/2006/03/brain_cells_fused_with_compute.html
Dave
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