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LightningBoy
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 Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:39 pm Dog brain cells programmed to play video game. |
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| Quote: | UT SCIENTIST: DOG NEURONS IN A DISH CONTROL GAME
A University of Texas scientist has grown a living "brain" that can control the video game Quake 3: Arena made by id Software, allowing scientists to study how brain cells compute and deal with sensory input.
The "brain," a group of 50,000 nerve cells taken from a dog and raised in a Petri dish, lets scientists observe brain functions at the cellular level in real time. Scientists hope to better understand how the brain deals with sensory input which may lead to treatments for certain types of blindness and brain trauma. |
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harrykims#1fan
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| Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:33 pm |
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can it play Metroid? because if itdoes i want a match 
but very remarkable all the same
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LightningBoy
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| Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:13 pm |
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Nevermind, looks like it's a fake...
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Admiral Dani�l
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| Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:44 am |
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If it's true its not really kind to the dog... The dog is altered and will probably not be the same as before, but it really looks like a fake
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LightningBoy
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| Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:31 pm |
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It was a fake, but it was based on a real experiment where rat brain cells controlled some simple computer-based programs.
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