Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A “biocomputer” powered by human brain cells could be developed within our lifetime, researchers say. The technology could exponentially ...

Swiss scientists are attempting to produce a biocomputer from living cells, an idea that dates to science fiction, the BBC reported Saturday. According to the report, scientists are working toward ...

Growing a brain is nothing new. For the past 50 years, neuroscientists around the world have been studying the human brain in ...

In a new study published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, a research team from Boston University (BU) led by synthetic biologist Wilson Wong has managed to turn mammalian cells into biocomputers ...

Every day, there seems to be a new advancement in computing—whether it’s OpenAI releasing ChatGPT AI, or Google announcing a breakthrough in quantum computing. Despite these innovations, some ...

In a new paper published in the journal Frontiers in Science, a team of researchers laid out a roadmap to achieve that goal, a new multidisciplinary field they’re calling “organoid intelligence,” or ...

Billionaire investor Li Ka-Shing is funding a new technology that can potentially rival artificial intelligence (AI) by using brain cells blended with computers in a technology it calls DishBrain. Don ...

Researchers in nanomedicine have long dreamed of an age when molecular-scale computing devices could be embedded in our bodies to monitor health and treat diseases before they progress. The advantage ...

Researchers say they've successfully created a more powerful computer-like human cell that could eventually be used to help monitor one's health or even fight against cancer and other illnesses. Using ...

Futuristic ‘biocomputers’ powered by human brain cells could soon become a reality which will revolutionise computing, a new study suggests. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University say the ...