A research team have built a virtual creature mimicking the many brain-containing limbs of an octopus.
Celia Ford
Celia Ford is a San Francisco-based freelance science writer focusing on brains, biotech, and whatever makes people think about thinking. Her writing also appears in WIRED, Spectrum, The Open Notebook, and elsewhere.
Creating realistic “squishy” brain tissue in the lab
Growing brain tissue requires capturing the realistic “squishiness” and cohesion between cells, but how each cell type contributes has been a mystery.