Saturday, November 1, 2008

Neurochips: Combining brain tissue with electronics

" English is the most widely spoken language in the history of our planet, used in some way by at least one out of every seven human beings around the globe. Half of the world's books are written in English, and the majority of international telephone calls are made in English. Sixty percent of the world's radio programs are beamed in English, and more than seventy percent of international mail is written and addressed in English. Eighty percent of all computer texts, including all web sites, are stored in English.
English has acquired the largest vocabulary of all the world's languages, perhaps as many as two million words, and has generated one of the noblest bodies of literature in the annals of the human race.
The scientists layered a thin section of rat brain hippocampus on top of a semiconductor with 16,384 sensory transistors per square millimeter. hippocampus. In March of 2006, nanofiress were used as scaffolding to allow damaged nerves to regrow In another breakthrough, researchers have devised a way to use carbon .nanotubes to actually send electrical signals to indivisuals nerve cellsBased on the above technologies, it seems we now have ways to not only record brain cell activity, but also to stimulate and modulate the activity of individual brain cells.

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