• aleonem@lemmy.today
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      6 months ago

      Brain cells have already existed for millions of years. This is nothing revolutionary.

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      6 months ago

      Bro, my brain alone has like millions of cells and these guys are getting all excited over, what, six!?

    • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Nah chief, it’s pretty groundbreaking. I mean we don’t know how to specifically target existing connections to strengthen the sheathe between existing brain cells, but connecting two brain cells at all, manually, is such a feat