I wonder if they tap their little organoid toes as they wait? (mark time?)
From ScienceAlert:
Our brains comprise 86 billion neurons and the trillions of connections between them, whipping up an orchestrated storm of electricity and chemicals that pulse within a 3-pound lump of jellified fat, protein, and water.
The intricate biological machine that defines us humans requires about 20 years to mature, a much lengthier developmental period than in most other species.
This, along with the added inconvenience that it's locked within our craniums, makes our developing brains experimentally inaccessible.
So, scientists are building brains in the lab, no big deal.
In a breakthrough described in the journal Nature, researchers have created miniature brains, called organoids, that can 'sense' the passage of time and retain a cellular 'memory' of how long they have already spent developing....
....MUCH MORE
Previously on the wee whiz-kids:
September 2018 - Lab Grown Mini-Brains Raise Some Ethical Questions
November 2018 - "Lab-Grown Mini Kidneys 'Go Rogue,' Sprout Brain and Muscle Cells"
August 2023 - ICYMI: "Researchers Teach Human Brain Cells in a Dish to Play 'Pong'"
Getting into a weird area here.January 2024 - Cyborg computer with living brain organoid aces machine learning tests"
June 2024 - Another Way To Beat AI's Power Consumption Problem: Brain Organoids
March 2026 - "Human Brain Cells Learn to Play Doom in Cortical Labs Experiment"
March 2026 - "Human Brain Cells Run New Data Centers in Singapore, Melbourne"
