One step closer to an adaptive connection with the brain, which makes advanced prostheses and regenerative medicine possible. Mimicking the human brain is a dream of many scientists. With applications for both the computer world, which is envious of the energy efficiency and learning character of our brain, and the medical world, which seeks solutions to neural problems. Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology, together with American and Italian researchers, have succeeded in developing artificial synapses that can actually communicate with living cells. This system may be used in the future to 'connect' prostheses to the brain. The results are published today in Nature Materials.
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