{"id":3042,"date":"2026-03-07T22:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/scientists-grew-a-mini-human-brain-in-a-dish-and-taught-it-to-play-doom-in-1-week-using-human-brain-cells\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T22:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:26:17","slug":"scientists-grew-a-mini-human-brain-in-a-dish-and-taught-it-to-play-doom-in-1-week-using-human-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/scientists-grew-a-mini-human-brain-in-a-dish-and-taught-it-to-play-doom-in-1-week-using-human-brain-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Grew A Mini Human Brain In A Dish And Taught It To Play DOOM In 1 Week.. Using Human Brain Cells!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table width=\"80%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/C9v53FH98bFs.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\">\n                <\/td>\n<td width=\"80%\" valign=\"top\">Scientists at Cortical Labs grew about 200,000 living human neurons on a microchip and trained them to play the 1993 game DOOM in under a week. The cells aren&#8217;t running the game like a computer?they get the game data as electrical signals and fire back commands to move and shoot. This is a major step up from their 2022 experiment where neurons learned Pong.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Cortical Labs grew about 200,000 living human neurons on a microchip and trained them to play the 1993&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":3225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}