Brett J. Kagan

What if you could harness the properties of living brain cells?

New article in Nature Reviews Bioengineering explores the CL1, a first-of-its-kind platform that allows real-time, closed-loop electrophysiological interactions with living neural networks.

Link to article below

Brain cells in a dish playing...DOOM?

A recent graduate, Sean, used our CL API to get living neural cultures to play Doom.

And just in a few days...

Biological neural systems as an information processor has moved off the lab-bench and onto your laptop.
youtube.com/watch?v=yRV8fS…

What if you could test how a drug impacts cognitive function in a dish?

Neurons from an epilepsy model couldn’t learn Pong—until treated with certain meds. Not all drugs that reduced activity restored learning. A world-first step toward functional drug screening. Link below 🧠

Any sufficiently advanced machine is indistinguishable from biology.

#neuroscience #synthetic #biology

Will we ever understand how consciousness arises and what would it mean if we did?

Our new paper proposes an iterative process for investigating morally relevant states, ranging from single cells to intact brains.

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO…