Scientists Taught a Petri Dish of Brain Cells to Play Doom—They’re Getting Better

How many brain cells does it take to play a game of Doom?

800K Brain Cells in Petri Dish Playing Doom Is Freaking Out the Internet

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have achieved a remarkable feat that blurs the lines between biology and technology. Cortical Labs has cultivated 800K brain cells in a petri dish, ...

Bacteria have a secret engineering trick to keep themselves in shape

Blow up a long balloon and two things happen: it gets longer and it gets wider. Now imagine a living cell that inflates itself under enormous pressure and yet only grows longer, never adding width.
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Ro Ghoul codes for March 2026

9th March 2026: We added new Ro Ghoul codes. Based on the hit anime and manga Tokyo Ghoul, Ro-Ghoul is a dark fantasy Roblox game that sees you join up with one of two factions: Either as a Ghoul with ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Johns Hopkins Scientists Engineer Nanoparticles Able to Seek and Destroy Diseased Immune Cells

The Johns Hopkins-developed nanoparticles were able to induce the destruction of the majority of the immune system cells called B cells, which contribute to diseases such as lupus and cancers of the ...

A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'

Understandably, you're likely scratching your head, wondering how it's even possible for a petri dish to play Doom. Good question. The answer is the CL1, "the world’s first code ...
eLife

Butyrate rescues chlorpyrifos-induced social deficits through inhibition of class I histone deacetylases

Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, United States College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, United States ...