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Living human brain cells are now playing Doom

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 27, 2026
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Living Human Brain Cells Play DOOM on a CL1 (Cortical Labs/YouTube)

Cortical Labs, the Australian biotech company that grew 800,000 human neurons on a chip and taught them to play Pong in 2022, has answered the internet’s oldest hardware question: Can it run Doom? It can. The company posted a YouTube video showing its CL1 biological computer running the …

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