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Testing The WatersCross a snail's brain cells with a computer chip and you get a glimpse of a genuine cyborg. That's the feat accomplished last spring by Peter Fromherz and Günther Zeck at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry near Munich. The researchers formed the first working neuroelectronic circuit after attaching a gastropod's neuronal network to a semiconductor chip. Electrical signals pass from the chip, through a small group of interconnected neurons, and back again. Next, they'll use slices of rat brain, which function much like human gray matter, to study the dynamics of larger groups of neurons. Drug development is one near-term application: Blinking transistors on neuron-chip devices would indicate a toxic pharmaceutical agent. The bigger challenge is to network 15,000 biological circuits into a living computer - the mother of all motherboards - something Fromherz admits sounds rather sci-fi. "I'll leave it to other generations to dream about neurocomputers," he says.- Mickey Butts
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