(BBC NEWS) -- Scientists have made artificial nerve cells, paving the way for new ways to repair the human body.
The tiny "brain chips" behave like the real thing and could one day be used to treat diseases such as Alzheimer's.
A team from the University of Bath used a combination of maths, computation and chip design to come up with a way to replicate in circuit form what nerve cells (neurons) do naturally.
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