Researchers fuse lab-grown human brain tissue with electronics

In a story ripped from the opening scenes of a sci-fi horror movie, scientists have bridged a critical gap between the biological and electronic. The study, published in Nature Electronics (summarized in Nature), details a "hybrid biocomputer" combining lab-grown human brain tissue with conventional circuits and AI. Dubbed Brainoware, the system learned to identify voices with 78 percent accuracy. It could one day lead to silicon microchips fused with neurons. Brainoware combines brain organoids -- stem-cell-derived clusters of human cells morphed into neuron-filled "mini-brains" -- with conventional electronic circuits.