Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

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

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, ...

Forget playing Doom on a calculator. Now you can play it with a clump of brain cells--no brainstem necessary.

Using a tool to solve a protein's structure, for most researchers in the world of structural biology and computational chemistry, is not unlike using the Rosetta Stone to unlock the secrets of ancient ...

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.

Next-generation lab automation to generate data for biological foundation models is increasingly limited by the unit economics of compartmentalization. That is, how efficiently we can run millions of ...

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 ...