Connecting Living Neurons to a Computer
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Did I get "printed locally here in Quebec" right? :o
@@Alceste_ yes, the link to the screen print studio is in the infobox
*THE PART TWO WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR* 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Hi, i think the link isn't working
The reason the neurons all died after the initial seeding is because you didn't rinse the PEI off properly and/or didn't dry it properly. While PEI is the best pre-coating agent in the business, it is also an extremely potent membrane perforant when in solution, so any miniscule picogram of the stuff you left unpolymerized is gonna be jumping from cell to cell, shredding their membranes. Rinse at least five times with maximal volume your growth vessel can take, and dry the vessel overnight in the LAF bench, otherwise you're just wasting expensive reagents.
Source: neuro lab-slave for 10+ years
Bump and like for visibility
Sounds like you are an ideal buddy for this dude to keep track of details, if you didnt have a job already.
Up!
I was about to say that exact some thing. However, you left out the part about the goop in the gloopinator. You really need to check that too.
post doc in a university?
"We're naming it: The Torment Nexus, after the hit book, Don't Build The Torment Nexus."
Bro is literally a classic evil scientist at this point
I cant stop laighting at that !
@@rubikscuber9277 Absolutely! (in the classical meaning of the word, like in "The Gay Falcon" (1941)) 😄
@@harriehausenman8623 sorry I mean to say Yay
@@spencerharrison9680 *tech company
Strange man in a sweaty lab coat staring at a rat in the corner of the room. Thinking to himself ... "Can it run DOOM?"
More correctly: "Can it play DOOM?"
>wake up
>your entire existence is DOOM
>pass on thinking that was all there ever was to life
Same as it ever was.
>wake up
>your existence is this one
>pass on thinking that was all there was to life
@@poupeuu This is why I choose to participate in 5 dimensions
Imagine being conscious just to find out your purpose is to do a playthrough of doom
Somehow that doesn't seem that bad, it's a decent life purpose
That's more or less how I remember my high school years...
A fulfilling life
you know that there are theories that we live in a game. Soooo
That's a lot better of a purpose than to pass the butter.
I'm glad someone's finally getting around to building the torment Nexus
Well it wasn't going to build itself.
@@ayybe7894 your not wrong lmao
Me: Wait, where does the "torment" come from in Torment Nexus?
The Thought Emporium: Cayenne pepper flakes. Look at the neurons screaming in torment. Delightful.
Me: Oh yeah, that makes total sense, thanks.
I'm just glad it's the humble mad scientist and not the techbros.
@@jakobweisser8044 "We built a neural interface on an unregistered cruise liner off the coast of Panama that mines cryptocurrency. We just need your donation of $200,000 to keep it running and to pay the illegal waste dumping fees." -techbro neuroscientists
Imagine being the neurons
"okay, so we can't sense anything, and we probably can't do anything, but we AAH SPICY!"
the torment nexus will be built!
Homie really dumped hot chem on raw nerves just to see the funny lights
I have no mouth and I must scream.
"Yeah I'm doing research on neural networks."
"Oh, what algorithms are you working with?"
"Rat"
Painstakingly growing a brain slice only to pepperspray it moments later -.-
Such is the cruel nature of life
Do not build the Torment Nexus. But if you do, do not torment the Torment Nexus with cayenne pepper flakes.
Sounds like a middle-age crisis
Almost human
every time i found one of his videos i get this harlan ellison vipes and i dont know why.
3:50 "long term, i want to simulate a whole brain"
fucking WHAT
Bro is a mad scientist 😭
Naturally. 🧐
I think he's not talking about a human brain (so far...).
@@samuelhomberg9075You want skynet? That’s how you get skynet.
@@samuelhomberg9075give him time...
"It's designed for researchers, not a bunch of crazy nerds"
"Corporate needs you to spot the difference between these images"
Researchers aren't nerds, they're just crazy
budget
@@mihael64 But... they are also usually nerds XD
@@mihael64 My advisor literally can not physically stop himself from talking about Dune if he drank more than 2 beers... And not every researcher is crazy. Some can even manage work life balance. Not anyone I know, but I heard some can!
Can't wait till I have to feed my computer and overclock it with some spicy red pepper
*losing in valorant* MY FRAMES! GET THE PEPPER
"Hey guys, my GPU is struggling to hit 120fps. Gotta go toss a 5 hour energy into the growth medium circulator."
Sprinkling it in like fish food into a brain in a tank
*playing fps game*
*loosing connection*
"Guys, my machine just had a seizure."
What i learnt is that injecting pepper into the brain will be an effective form of torture.
THE DAY HAS COME BROTHERS! 🗣️🔥🔥
FINNNNALLLLLYYYYY
LETS GOOOOOOO💯💯
Ikr! I've been waiting for this for what seems like FOREVER!!!!!
yay
WE WILL FINALLY MAKE A MEAT COMPUTER
"Slightly sentient enchilada" caught me off guard xDDDD
Yup, not a sentence I expected to hear this morning... lol
It's only sentient, we're fine _(for now)._
I loved reading "Don't Build the Torment Nexus!" When I was a kid. I don't remember what the moral of the story was, but I really liked the lore, aesthetics, and world building. I'm so glad someone is bringing my favourite sci-fi to life! We really do live in the future!
Wait I can’t tell if this is genuine or not
@@Penguinman2.0Neither can I…
On a second reading, I don’t think it’s genuine, “I don’t remember what the moral of the story was” seems like it wouldn’t be there if it was.
@@Penguinman2.0 The book doesn't exist, its from a meme talking about how techbros proudly claim inspiration from scifi stories where the whole moral is NOT to build the technology featured in the movie. Like how vr/metaverse nerds constantly say "its like the Matrix in real life"
@@SissypheanCatboy or more recently, openai comparing gpt-4o to the movie "her"
@@SissypheanCatboyThe first thing we did after GPT-1 showed promise was hook up the next version to the internet to learn from. It's like the people at the forefront of advancement have turned dystopian prophecies into a checklist..
It's brilliant but a little sad to think that a dish full of rat neurons could potentially beat me at Doom.
the ultimate cheat system, full automation cheats; I could grind war thunder off a chunk of rat brain
@@breadboi3837imagine getting banned for rat brain botting 😂
@@zachrowe6271 🤗
To be fair, you also have to think about, yknow, having a body and pressing keys and shit.
@@user-burnerTrue that, all about focus, reaching flow state.
If youtube was just this type of content but with every expertise/experiment currently going on. It would be just perfect harmony.
The perfect combination of long-form content, diligent and passionate work, and humor!
Meanwhile TH-cam: Demonetized.
Hey! I work with mammalian cell cultures, and I know they can be very finicky! If you didn't change the media a day after your initial seeding, the residual DMSO from the cryopreservation media is likely what killed your cells. Not sure if you did this or not, but I didn't see it in the video so figured it was worth mentioning! You guys are awesome, keep up the great work.
"What is my purpose?"
"You play DOOM."
"RIP AND TEAR! RIP AND TEAR! RIP AND TEAR!"
24:40
Surely this is the worst O-Ring disaster in the scientific profession...
New challenger appeared!
@@noi0124it’s the challenger space shuttle ! Ready? Set Fight!
Maybe they just have to chill… *checking notes*
On no, wait. That was NOT the cure 😆
Too soon
Context? (Curious)
"What if we grew a mind in a vat that only knew how to interact with the world through violence and was trained to snap headshot imps in .03 seconds, this will surely not go terribly wrong."
Yeah, this could never go wrong, but to make sure lets wire a 100 of these up to the Boston dynamics robot wielding a shotgun. But we would still be in control, right? lol
I know this is a joke, but the interaction that the neurons see is not in any way related to violence. it's like if you played doom, but instead of a screen, you just see an array of 10 blinking lights and no-one told you that you're playing doom, only if you're succeeding at pressing the correct buttons or not.
so ... as long as no-one tries to apply this to real-life weapons, there's no reason whatsoever to worry. though ... now that I think of it, knowing humans, this does indeed have me worried
@@SafetyAlwaysLast
Boston dynamics V1
Context- For it to work like the joke intended it would need some reason for violence like a reward system but for that to work we have to have some sort of detection software supporting it and at that point just use software, so yeah the joke falls apart, oh well. Except for machine learning being applicable to organisms, i.e. stimuli training, so maybe we could consider culturing them with positive stimuli for shooting the target before sending them but that sounds like a lot of work. Not that someone wouldn't try? Also if the logic reply wasn't to the Boston Dynamics bot joke then that is really embarrassing lol
@@SafetyAlwaysLast on the other hand, the neurons not being aware of it being violence points to another issue, since that means they won't have any concerns whatsoever with performing violence if put in a situation where they might accidentally do so.
putting any kind of neural network, artificial or biological, in charge of dangerous equipment means that unless you very actively train it to avoid harming humans, it will do so if any humans get in the way. this is of course already the case with any kind of automated machines, even without neural networks or similar, which is why we tend to place robots in cages, so we can better protect humans from them
Neuron: Help I'm peeling
Neurobiologist: SUGAR FREE HORSE JUICE
DOCTOR STEVE POTTER CONTACTED YOU!
THE DOCTOR POTTER!
This is surely indicative of success to come
For the ones randomly watching this and has no idea who Steve Potter is and why it is a big deal
It is as if Jesus Christ himself showed up for a theology class
A truly impressive feat!
What a Legend.
I’m sure he’s never heard this joke, but he sounds like a wizard in this field.
@@akatsukilevi I can't not stop thinking about Professor brothers now lol
10:09 "Hey how are the neurons growing?"
"They all died"
*AD*
...had a hard time trying not to chuckle in the doctor's office.
I'm a doctoral researcher and Neuroscientist. When it comes to culturing medium for neurons morphology can tell you a lot about the state a cell is in (this goes for most cell types). To me the classic choice of Neurobasal gives you cells with shrunk cell bodies (the nucleus is tightly shrink wrapped if you will) and long complex truncated neurites (dendrites and axons). This tells you that these cells are "mature" neurons. They are not quite mature because you literally need let time pass for them to become mature, interestingly the time of maturation depends on species and is much longer for human neurons compared to mouse neurons.
I am a mitochondrial and cancer physiologist, and not a neurobiologist, but have been studying metabolic and growth effects of different commercial medias. It might be worth keeping in mind that the metabolite concentrations in DMEM are largely not found in the brain. I'd be curious to know how Neurobasal and DMEM compare in their composition. All of these considerations, i.e., metabolic activity and ionic concentration, will affect the neuron's membrane potential.
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING!
Neuron-piloted flesh mechs growing neurons, simulating neurons, looking at neurons, visualizing neurons.
Ah yes, Neuron Activation.
Soon we shall have a flesh automaton animated by neurotransmitters!
Do not dare to insult the purity of steel by comparing mechs to abominable flesh
Bro just called God's greatest creation "neuron-piloted flesh mechs"
@@Mate_Antal_Zoltan It's a Cruelty Squad reference xP
@@audriusskebas3099 guy who has only played Cruelty Squad in his entire life: "I'm getting real Cruelty Squad vibes from this..."
The trick to finding a comfy spot for your tongue is actually the roof of your mouth. People struggle with it because it's not intuitive that you keep it up there with suction normally.
μ
i love mewing
Huh, it’s kind of comfy
Funny enough I have a mint in my mouth and was already moving my tongue
Thanks!
Don't you just hate it when you're chilling in the torment nexus when all of a sudden your entire being is overcome with an extremely powerful chemical irritant?
dr stone would probably accomplish this with the power of jump cuts and eye closeups
Power of anime
This part of TH-cam is interesting because you have genuine, field respected scientists contributing to a meme. A similar situation I see is a video series an amateur arachnid enthusiast making absurdly detailed videos about common house spiders, and basically has tons of scientists conversing with him and in the comments about the most trivial of differences between two species of harmless spiders
Which channel is this?
@@Astoria_Varanus Oops, I forgot to put his name: Travis McEnery. The series is called "The Spiders in Your House."
To be fair, if this project succeeds it will be the ultimate, unbeatable iteration of the running doom on X meme.
Thank you Multichannel Systems (affiliate of Harvard Bioscience)! Without your help we never could have built the Torment Nexus.
“What’s my purpose?”
“To play doom”
“Oh my god”
neurons: WHY IS IT SPICY
NOT THE SPICEEEE AAAAA
What if we somehow connected neurons to a limb to train it to hold and shoot a gun, so that the neurons could kill a human being.
Bro said my intrusive thoughts lmao
Robobrain is the future.
yoo yo have the same name as my classmate
@@oightKoreraAreEditable Really?
arrest the neurons
13:41 It does say "Minimize light exposure" on the bag.
True. 😄
18:13 putting a tinfoil hat on the neurons is amazing
Impressive! It’s really nice to see the path your channel has taken. From the time I was watching you hunting VHF satellites in Brazil, Wi-Fi imaging, the pulsar corner reflector (that one got me really excited), to DNA hacking and neuron training. I would like to say I came for the RF and stayed for the bio. 10/10
1:14
"...Is there a limit..."
There's a Let's Game It Out 🤝 Thought Emporium.
Terrifying people by saying "is there a limit."
oh my gosh what a small world
THIS. This one right here. ✅️
"Let's find out!"
Hold, please!
Only one way to find out
Hey... I've noticed sometimes when pipetting, you (or whoever is doing the pipetting) touches the destination, and they go back to the source. This is a no-no as it can cross contaminate the whole batch, and the source material. I'm not even talking about living contamination. In the examples I saw, I don't think it's that big of a deal, it would introduce neurobasal into the neuron source.
But it's a bad practice either way.
3:20
"You merely adopted the sports drink. I was BORN in it, MOLDED by it"
Love the Tumblr post reference with the Torment Nexus joke
Do not let bro start his villain arc 💀
Too late buddy 😂
Hey what was the unedited?
Adding capsaicin to the culture was the start of the villain arc
Wow, this comment is hilarious and I really appreciate the originality😐
@@Bread78787 shh-
*Rip and tear playing in the distance* THE TIME HAS COME
Once again, casually bringing cutting edge research to TH-cam. Legend
Hey! I’m messing with neurons at the moment in my PhD and I saw the exact same morphology in DMEM/F12, I was stumped what was causing it! As a precaution we’re genotyping with ICC and qPCR since we’re deriving from iPSCs - anyway, love the video! This project is so cool!
ON TODAYS EPISODE OF MANMADE HORRORS WITHIN COMPRENTION
(edit: i will respect english spelling once its concistant (was that wrong, probably) fake ass language)
ikr
How many todays are there?
There’s no need to shout.
@uriituw ok boomer
COMPRENTION
spelling is beyond your own comprehension
Wonder if the neurons will freak out when they cant look up or down.
only as much as you'll freak out when you realize there's a fourth dimension you can't rotate yourself in
@@rootabeta9015 Did somebody say 4D Golf? 😄
@@rootabeta9015actually I’m rotated in time by 4°
@@rootabeta9015 sounds like a skill issue, I can rotate in the 4th dim just fine
@@harriehausenman8623 non-intuitive double rotation intensifies*
This is one of the coolest projects I've ever seen. Who knows, maybe someday you'll connect whole rat brains to the internet
you have no idea how excited i am about this update. I've been rewatching the old video very often as a source of comfort
Can't wait until 2030 when I have to worry about giving my phone a concussion when I drop it
if youre still having issues with the array electrodes being cut correctly, maybe ask a glitter company if they can help. I know its a weird idea but glitterX is just a company with precision cutting instruments. Might be worth it
Wasn't there the old riddle about what the glitter companys biggest customer was and they have absolute secrecy and nobody knows? 🤔
@@harriehausenman8623 Yes, and it is most likely pearlescent paint for hobby boats. Boat manufacturers don't want it to be associated with how "unmanly" glitter is seen as, as well as the fact that pretty much all of it ends up as pollution in water.
For your cap problem. Get a smaller radius plug to fit in the collection. Use the semipermiable membrane as the gasket layer. You can then place an o ring directly on the plates acrylic pipe.
18:09 “slightly sentient enchilada” made me inhale half my beer
Ah yes finaly update for the literal game of life😂
the devs take a while to update the game
Horton Conway would approve this comment. 🙏 R.I.P.
Damn, that poster looks AMAZING!
Thank you!
Glad TH-cam brought me back for part 2!
18:13 don't forget to wrap the wires too, it's how you turn a moderate speaker system in to a high end speaker system.
The wires look like they might be fiber optic?
Apart from USB, but that’s error corrected
Cannot wait for growing brains to beat Super Mario 64
Donkey Kong is next!
I was about to cut a chunk of my brain to experiment by myself BUT PART 2 CAME TO LIFE SO NOW I CAN LIVE WITH MY FULL BRAIN!!!
DO IT ANYWAY!
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO! I gotta go rewatch the first episode again to get the full effect haha!
9:29 "Why those ingredients? I have NO IDEA!"
Yep! That's how you know someone is doing real science and not just teaching you prepared lesson.
"This is your brain...and this is your brain on doom. Get the picture?"
In the words of 4 year old me, "I like the spicy chemical."
It came ...... after 3 years
It did!
I didn’t know that there a so many materials in common with 3d printing! Fep, pei, teflon, lactate. Just waow!
You are one of the main reasons I am perusing my masters in synthetic biology!!!! I love your videos man hope you keep doing what you do :)
Today is a day to remember. Tomorrow is a day that we will never forget
I can't remember today. It is currently happening. I can't remember tomorrow. It hasn't happened yet. Soon I will forget about yesterday.
@@MaxBrix bro forgor 💀
And we're back on the super villain type beat
I've been waiting almost a year for this video! Now it's finally here! Thank you so much! 🎉🎉🎉
The Thought Emporium in 2069: "I've created an entire human, but can it play doom,while running doom in its subconscious?"
From now on I shall only respond to "slightly sentient enchilada"
One of the few time I actually waited for a video to come out and the concept is cool af, hell yeah!
Thank you multichannel systems! What a huge help that is!
yesss been waiting for part 2 thank you
was waiting for this... Iam glad you continue the project
yea your done pal
2:18 "don't build the tormentor nexus. And thus far we've been making great progress"... wait wait, so, you are making great progress in NOT BUILDING the tormentor nexus, or in building it?
Yes!
@@thethoughtemporiumwhich one?
The ad read in this video make me think brain-computer device is already implanted in my brain. You're really good at this.
You know now you and your community need to communicate with the manufacturer of Green Dakara to make sure they either never change it, or always keep the current recipe available.
The brain has everything that makes you eeu! 😂 0:05
This idea also opens some ethical questions that need to be answered. Great video!
LETS GO! the youtube mad scientist has returned.
I have been waiting for a long time. Your work is inspiring.
Been waiting for this for sooooo long
I CAN'T STOP MANUALLY BREATHING HELPPPPPP
breathe in, breathe ou- I just realized that made it worse 😭
Anyone else ever think about the fact that you don't know what it's like to fall asleep because in the process you become unconscious
@@henrysanecdotes5323 That’s deep stuff right there
I can help you, put a pillow
@@henrysanecdotes5323ever had a limb fall asleep? That but the whole body
This channel makes me so happy I love coming along to do science with you
9:55 Aha! apropos to my previous comment about cell density, I see how to solve your problems: We always added a small droplet (50-100ul) of cell suspension added to an EMPTY dish, with just a 3mm laminin wet spot. Calculate what density you need in the suspension to get 50k-100k cells in that droplet. After the cells have settled and adhered (30 min?) carefully add the rest of the medium to flood the dish. Now you will have very dense cultures and signals on every electrode.
Thank you. We really appreciate all your input.
i love how the chart of things to do looks like something out of dr. stone
That poster is super cool.
Damn I want you guys to know I'm excited!! I'm really excited to see where we're going with this!!! I love it so much!
There is no way I can explain my feeling of this... This is awesome.
finally! :D couldn't wait anymore for this one
That shirt merch you displayed has got to be one of the coolest designs I've ever seen, but I can *not* afford to pay $100 for a shirt ( and an additional $45 shipping )
I hope they go to people who'll give them the love they deserve
you have NO IDEA how much i've waited for this!!
Hey man awesome video! Noticed that your latest videos are looking better and better. Your old videos looked a bit like a slides how or a PowerPoint presentation, but these newer ones keep looking cleaner cleaner!!
Fantastic work guys
Admittedly I only understand SOME of the concepts you talk about (way above the basic bio from my degree), but man this is sick as hell, I love it
It's sick, and.. you love it?...
@@cnnhean sick is slang for cool/good/rad in some places ☺
@@cnnheanThe word "Sick", as an adjective in this context can have stupidly many meanings, including "messed up" (like it seems you thought @dingus153 meant), but it can also (as a slang term) mean "Cool" (like they probably actually meant it)
@@afinnishfishnet7366 you maybe right in this context.
For me messed up is the accurate representation of growing neurons for such purposes.
@@cnnheanthe neurons can't feel. It's hundred times less messed up than how most of our animal products are produced.
Better faraday cage? Why not make a lead castle so it also protects against decay radiation and cosmic rays too.
we should make a skull from bone cells and put it inside
Just make a tinfoil hat, it protects you from everything, even the evil 5G! The side effect is causing mass neuron death.
Ive been waiting for part 2 for so long. I cant believe its finally here
YESSS, I've waited so long for this!
Was waiting for an update ❤