In a lab rack that looks more like a high-end audio system than a server, clusters of human brain cells are quietly learning to process information. Electrodes feed them signals, nutrients keep them ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are experimenting with ways to integrate brain cells into computer processors. The technology could help conserve ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Blurring the lines between gray matter and gigabytes, living computers seek to merge biology and technology. For a long time, bioprocessing platforms ...

It may have its roots in science fiction, but a small number of researchers are making real progress trying to create computers out of living cells. Welcome to the weird world of biocomputing. Among ...

You can grow a computer on your kitchen counter. Well, sort of. That’s the radical implication of new research from The Ohio State University, where scientists have turned humble shiitake mushrooms ...

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Scientists unveil a revolutionary “living computer” that fuses human flesh with silicon circuits, and it has its own OS that is neither Windows nor Linux. Australian startup Cortical Labs has launched ...