Living brains implanted with electronic chips to replace ‘faulty’ parts

Rob Waugh
Mail Online
January 18, 2012

Faulty parts of living brains have been replaced by electronic chips, in an astonishing and controversial scientific breakthrough.

It’s a move that has been anticipated many times in science fiction, with creatures such as The Terminator, a ‘cyborg’ hybrid of flesh and machinery.

But now, researchers at Tel Aviv University have successfully created circuits that can replace motor functions – such as blinking – and implanted them into brains.

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This article was posted: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 2:46 pm

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