🎮 Gaming Mar 16, 2026 · Rich Pelley

A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried?

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A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried?
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Scientists in the US have uploaded a fruit fly to a computer simulation, while an Australian lab has taught neurons on a glass chip to play a 90s video game. How long before we are all living in a sci-fi movie?It sounds like the opening of a sci-fi film, but US scientists recently uploaded a copy of the brain of a living fly into a simulation. In San Francisco, biotechnology company Eon Systems created a virtual insect that knew how to walk, fly, groom and feed in its virtual environment. Resear

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