These are bionic silicon chips that can be used as a weapon to combat Alzheimer's and some heart diseases
In the research team also two Italians The biochips were obtained in research coordinated by Alain Nogaret, of the Physics department of the British university of Bath, and conducted in collaboration with the Swiss university of Zurich and the New Zealand university of Auckland. The Italians Elisa Donati and Giacomo Indiveri are part of the working group.
They work like windows The first nanocircuits obtained reproduce the ionic channels, ie sequences of proteins that are found on the surface of the cells and that, like windows, allow the passage of substances from the outside into the cells. In the case of neurons, ion channels allow the transmission of nerve signals.
The chips behave like nerve cells On the silicon chips, both the nerve cells that control breathing and those of the hippocampus, the brain structure in which the memory unit is located, have been reproduced. In both cases the behavior of the chips was similar to that of nerve cells.
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