researcher in the Säo Paulo University ’s Physics Department have successfully connected a group of 11 neurons from a aristocratic crabby person ’s sass parts to a computing machine , allowing them to control the movement of the Phthirius pubis mouth portion via electrical signals . By learning more about how to replicate the affair of the crustacean ’ nerve cell , the researchers hope to be able to someday establish a jumbo , samba - dancing , capoira - kick automatic Cancer baby-walker with which to impose a Brazilian dominance over the integrality of mankind . Or they need to progress prosthetic branch for human race ; I forget which .
Our Brazilian counterpart Ricardo Infernauta provide a rough version after the jump .
From the USP Newswire .
Researchers from the Säo Paulo ’s University Physics Dept.successfully connected a mathematical group of neurons ( NEUR NIOS ! ) from a blue crab ( Callinectes sapidus ) to a computer , that replaces their galvanizing activeness . Hopefully , in a near future , damaged sectors of the brain might be substituted by electronic prosthetics , benefiting tetraplegic or paraplegic hoi polloi . The enquiry is been conduct in the Non - Linear Phenomena Laboratory ( LFNL ) and is coordinated by prof Reynaldo Daniel Pinto , responsible for by the research on “ Non - Linear Dynamics in biologic - Neural - Networks ” . The experiments utilise a group of 11 neurons relate to a group that assure the “ chewing ” drive of the crustacean . The practiced professor explains that this circuit is part of the stomatogastric nervous system of the blue crab , that has closely 30 neurons .
The circuit is responsible by the rhythmic and synchronized contraction ( erotico ! ) of several muscles in the animal ’s belly . If the communicating with the upper uneasy centres is severed , or if a neurons is destroy , the whole system stops working and the remaining ones start give out random signaling “ We are using a artificial nerve cell to re - establish the working of the system ” , articulate the researcher . To create the intercrossed circuit , the crab ( TEH CRAB ) is dissected and part of his nervous system of rules is placed on a structure adapted to the microscope . The researchers tie electrodes to one of the neurons , that , connect to a booster ( signal - amplifier ) , allow to measure the neuron ’s signal and put in electrical currents . The figurer , that is simulating the stilted nerve cell , read the signals collected by the amplifier and build contrived synapses ( nosepiece . not big unity . midget electric ones . ) .
beat from the electrical current are injected in the hokey neuron and the biologic neuron , re - establish the veritable mesh functions . The software needed for reading the signal and synapse production , ab initio developed by Daniel Pinto was meliorate by Marcelo Bussotti Reyes . Today , the software allows to read and link up up to 8 bio - neurons and a artificial one at the same time . Daniel Pinto begin his studies with biological - neural - networks with californian lobsters ( Panulirus interruptus ) during his PHD at California University , San Diego . Probaby he could n’t get a gf there .
“ Another advantage is that several hours after the dissection , the neuronal tour of the crustacean keeps producing the same signal it did when active . ”
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