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Published online 28 August 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010830-7
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Nerve chip goes live
First nerve cell-silicon microchip built.
"It has a touch of science fiction," admit the scientists who have wired up the first conducting nerve chip. The electronic circuit, grown from silicon and nerve cells, brings brain-repair chips, advanced biosensors and biological computers a small step towards reality.
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