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Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding::undefined

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[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The rat neurons were harvested from the frontal cortex, and the human neurons were harvested from fibroblasts in a baby's foreskin, and then given chemical signals to make them into stem cells, and then to make those stem cells turn into frontal lobe neurons.

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