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Groundbreaking: Japanese scientists develop a technique to connect brain cells grown in the lab(www.breezyscroll.com)

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lowleveldata@programming.dev
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Now I wait for some internet strangers to tell me why is this not groundbreaking at all

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Grimy@lemmy.world
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Babies can literally do this, not impressed

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aleonem@lemmy.today
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Brain cells have already existed for millions of years. This is nothing revolutionary.

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ivanafterall@kbin.social
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Bro, my brain alone has like millions of cells and these guys are getting all excited over, what, six!?

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OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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Nah chief, it’s pretty groundbreaking. I mean we don’t know how to specifically target existing connections to strengthen the sheathe between existing brain cells, but connecting two brain cells at all, manually, is such a feat

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