Cortical Labs ships synthetic brains to scientists with a taste for real-time wetware

An Aussie startup has stuck 800,000 lab-grown human neurons on a chip and called it a computer. Cortical Labs says its CL1 is the world’s first code-deployable biological machine, and it’s up for grabs at $35,000 a pop.

Even a brain on a petri dish can play pong

Researchers at the biotechnology startup Cortical Labs have created "mini-brains" consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish.