Scientists Connect Brain Cells to Nanotube Computer Chips

... The brain-computer interface
will be a critical component
for extreme human life
extension.

Such connections will allow
the human brain and mind to
expand beyond its current
limits and could potentially
allow one’s consciousness to
long outlive outlive one’s body.

Scientists there have first
created silicon-geranium
nanotubes. Then they placed
them into a culture of mouse
neurons.

There they found the
dendrites from the nerve cells
were drawn to explore and
grow into and through the
tubes and even follow their
structural architecture.

In the next stage of research
the tubes will be made into
functional silicon transistor
chips that will be capable both
of reading electric signals from
the dendrites as well as stimulating them. This would
then form the basis of future
brain-machine interfaces.

In the next stage of research
the tubes will be made into
functional silicon transistor
chips that will be capable both
of reading electric signals from
the dendrites as well as stimulating them. This would
then form the basis of future
brain-machine interfaces.