It seems like scientists are getting creative as they try to understand the human brain! A team in China has developed a special chip inspired by how they study objects far, far away in space. This chip is designed to help them unlock the mysteries of the brain in real-time.
The new chip can analyze a lot of brain data really fast, and works on it right away
Here’s the problem: scientists can now take pictures of a whole zebrafish brain at once, but figuring out what all that information means takes way too long. It’s like having a giant puzzle without a picture on the box.
The Chinese researchers noticed something interesting. When astronomers study quick bursts of radio waves from space, they also need to analyze a lot of data fast. So, the scientists took a page out of the astronomer’s playbook and designed a chip with special processing power. This chip can handle a massive amount of brain data (like hundreds of movies playing at once) and start making sense of it right away.
Their research, published in a science journal, shows the chip actually works. It can track the activity of up to 100,000 brain cells in a tiny zebrafish. The scientists even used the chip to control the swimming of paralyzed zebrafish, which is reminiscent of the Neuralink chip – but it wouldn’t be wrong to compare the two of them.
Hopefully, this tiny chip turns out to be a big leap forward for brain research. It could help scientists understand how our brains work in real time, leading to new data – or even better, new medical treatments.
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