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Groundbreaking: Japanese scientists develop a technique to connect brain cells grown in the lab
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Now I wait for some internet strangers to tell me why is this not groundbreaking at all
Babies can literally do this, not impressed
Brain cells have already existed for millions of years. This is nothing revolutionary.
Bro, my brain alone has like millions of cells and these guys are getting all excited over, what, six!?
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