Scientists taught a petri dish of brain cells to play Doom—they’re getting better

How many brain cells does it take to play a game of Doom?
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A Petri Dish Full Of Human Brain Cells Just Learned How To Play Doom

Forget playing Doom on a calculator. Now you can play it with a clump of brain cells--no brainstem necessary.

800K Brain Cells in Petri Dish Playing Doom Is Freaking Out the Internet

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have achieved a remarkable feat that blurs the lines between biology and technology. Cortical Labs has cultivated 800K brain cells in a petri dish, ...
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Keynote Presentation: Scaling Single-Cell and Cell-Cell Biology with Particle-Based Microcompartments

Next-generation lab automation to generate data for biological foundation models is increasingly limited by the unit economics of compartmentalization. That is, how efficiently we can run millions of ...
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Ro Ghoul codes for March 2026

9th March 2026: We added new Ro Ghoul codes. Based on the hit anime and manga Tokyo Ghoul, Ro-Ghoul is a dark fantasy Roblox game that sees you join up with one of two factions: Either as a Ghoul with ...

A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'

Understandably, you're likely scratching your head, wondering how it's even possible for a petri dish to play Doom. Good question. The answer is the CL1, "the world’s first code ...