On Mon, 12 May 2003 23:09:11 +0200, Jean-Michel Friedt
<friedtj at imec.be> wrote:
>> I heard once that someone somewhere somehow got a neuron to adhere to
>> a silicon chip, and that the next stage would be for them to communicate
>> with each other.
>>There were a lot of presentation at the 49th meeting of the
>Americal Vacuum Society about oriented neural growth and
>interfacing with electrodes. I can be done, but it's neither
>trivial nor reliable (having the neuron grow along an electrode
>does not mean it will make an electrical connexion).
>>A short summary of the presentation I attended is available
>at http://mmyotte.free.fr/chua/avs_summary.pdf, which provides
>some names/web pages/litterature references on the topic.
>>Jean-Michel
And also getting tissue cultured cells to grow along a silicon
substrate is a lot different from trying to interface to cells inside
a real, living brain.
