Rat Brains Fly Planes…

Rat Brains Fly Planes…

RatJust another creepy addition to our News from the Future section…“It sounds like science fiction: a brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of “living” computer. But in groundbreaking experiments in a Florida laboratory that is exactly what is happening. The “brain”, grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a single rat embryo, has been taught to fly an F-22 jet simulator…” [via] Link.

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