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Researchers at Melbourne start-up Cortical Labs have taught their "biological computer" made from living human brain cells to play Doom.

They say it brings biological computers a step closer to real-world uses, such as drug-testing or robotics applications.

Cortical Labs synthetic biological intelligence scientist Dr Alon Loeffler told Midday Report it was the "first code-deployable biological computer".

"We like to call it neurocomputer, made out of about 200,000 to 800,000 cells that were

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