nerves cultured in artifical medium

shivakumar06

can nerves not be cultured in artificial medium? why?
do nervers undergo cell division?

atyy

Where did you read that?

Did you mean something other than https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/culturing-nerve-cells ?

Pythagorean

'Cultured neural networks' even has its own wiki, it's fairly typical. They can demonstrate learning/memory:

Baruchi I, Ben-Jacob E (2007). "Towards Neuro-Memory Chip: Imprinting Multiple Memories in Cultured Neural Networks". Physical Review E 75.

and of course, there's the cultured rat neurons controlling the robot:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/b...robot-grows-up

As to whether neurons divide, There's "younger" cells (neural stem cells) waiting to differentiate in the brain that can turn into either glia or neurons and once you've differentiated into a neuron you can't divide (but I thought I heard something about them being able to go back to their earlier state... not sure whether it was in nature or lab only).

Or maybe it was this:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0130171907.htm