Building cognitive machines that process information the same way a brain does has been the dream of neuroscientists for more than 50 years.
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Dick Pelletier on 08/04 at 08:37 AM
Note: Just last week, DARPA and NIH announced the funding of another ‘human body on a chip’ program called BIO-MIMETICS, with goals of creating a lab system to test drug reactions for a broad number of human diseases including cancer.
Link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/human-body-on-a-chip-research-funding-0724.html
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