Mixing brain cells and nanodots 73
Roland Piquepaille writes "It's not the first time that animal brain cells have been used in conjunction with nanoparticles. But now, a team of Israeli researchers have grown self-organizing networks of rat brain cells by binding them to carbon nanotubes. In a short article, New Scientist reports that these neural networks are remarkably stable, surviving for almost three months in the lab. These hybrid networks could be used in future biological sensors. For example, they could identify a poison by measuring its effect on such a network of brain cells."
Re:Heh (Score:3, Informative)
proc DetectPoison()
{
global $NeuralActivity;
return $NeuralActivity == 0;
}
There, that's better.
Re:Wait, what's this about nanodots? (Score:5, Informative)
A buckyball is a kind of nanodot. Some micelles could be considered nanodots.
HTH...
Re:Heh (Score:2, Informative)
Mod parent down for blatant plagiarism! (Score:5, Informative)
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17190
In fact, just about all the prior comments [slashdot.org] by "janet-on" seem to be verbatim copies of comments made by other people. The trick seems to work rather well, considering that the previous three comments all got modded to a score of 5, and the current comment is now at score 4.
Personally, I'm guessing that "janet-on" is a bot someone made to try to accumulate karma, to allow them to moderate comments.