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“Artificial” brain cells play video game Pong

Researchers have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game. Mini-brains were first produced in 2013, to study microcephaly, a genetic disorder where the brain is too small, and have since been used for research into brain development but this is the first time they have been plugged into, and interacted with, an external environment. The mini-brains are likely to become more complex as the research progresses. Do you think that lab grown brain cells can be used on treatment of brain diseases?

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