“Dr. Naweed Syed has made the brain come to life on a microchip.
He and a University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine team of eight, in collaboration with the National Research Council, have developed a silicon chip that monitors the subtle signals of living individual brain cells and keeps them alive for up at least two days.
Only snail brain cells have been used, but in a couple months, Syed will target cells from epileptic patients. “We want to get the seizure-causing tissue removed in surgery, test the impact of drugs on those cells, and find a better drug for the patient,” he explained.
Once the process is fully automated hundreds of cells could be tested simultaneously.”
“Dr. Naweed Syed was the first to connect brain cells to a silicon chip, a major step in controlling artificial limbs, correcting memory loss, impaired vision and more. Now, he’s leading the U of C biomedical engineering strategy.
Dr. Naweed Syed’s “brain on a chip” discovery is a major step towards integrating computers with human brains to help people control artificial limbs, monitor people’s vital signs, correct memory loss or impaired vision. “We want to harness the innovation taking place here by putting people from different disciplines in a place where they will bump into each other on a daily basis and work together on novel ideas,” Syed says.”
Read more at Metro News and Ucalgary (Thanks Duncan)
Ooooh, exciting.
i’d like to volunteer!
I want a usb port added to my brain so that I can download and add data without having to learn it