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According to New Scientist, scientists have created a rat hippocampus on a chip, which is able to integrate into a rat brain and provide the functionality — storing memories — in place of a damaged hippocampus. They say it shouldn’t be very hard to extend this technology to monkeys and eventually humans.
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One Comment
Don Bill
August 2nd, 2007
at 11:29am
Put me down for a USB sub-medulla tap or a vertabral firewire port to jack into that chip. Then maybe I could remember where I left those car keys.