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Groundbreaking: Japanese scientists develop a technique to connect brain cells grown in the lab (www.breezyscroll.com)

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[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 18 points 5 months ago

Now I wait for some internet strangers to tell me why is this not groundbreaking at all

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago

Babies can literally do this, not impressed

[-] aleonem@lemmy.today 21 points 5 months ago

Brain cells have already existed for millions of years. This is nothing revolutionary.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 10 points 5 months ago

Bro, my brain alone has like millions of cells and these guys are getting all excited over, what, six!?

[-] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Nah chief, it's pretty groundbreaking. I mean we don't know how to specifically target existing connections to strengthen the sheathe between existing brain cells, but connecting two brain cells at all, manually, is such a feat

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