Humans as hardware: Computing with biological tissue
Credit: Yo Kobayashi, 2025. Most computers run on microchips, but what if we’ve been overlooking a simpler, more elegant computational tool all this time? In fact, what if we were…
‘Biocomputer’ combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware
Part of a brain organoid, in which stem cells (pink) are differentiating into neurons (purple).Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library Researchers have built a hybrid biocomputer — combining a laboratory-grown human…