Japanese scientists manage to recreate tiny portion of a human brain

A team of researchers in Japan has managed to recreate a tiny portion of a human brain, piece by piece, with more precision that ever before. The team connected networks of neurons, the pathways along which information travels through our brains, with remarkable accuracy. It could be the first step toward the creation of brains in the lab that mirror our own - although millions of connecting neurons are needed to perform even basic tasks. Networks of neurons, the pathways along which information travels through our brains, have been created in the lab with more precision than ever before. Researchers from the University of Tokyo examined how neurons behave and found that they could be trained to join with one another using a'synthetic neuron-adhesive material', what they call their microscopic plates.