Biological computer made from single-celled organisms can crunch data

By Matthew Sparkes Tetrahymena thermophila Masayuki Ushio et al./Kyoto University A colony of single-celled organisms can function as a biological computer to crunch a series of historical data points and forecast the future. An experiment that replaced each node in a neural network with a tiny organism showed that the waxing and waning size of … Read more