Building a microfluidic pump for living neurons
Arta Osmani built a pump from $6 in parts and spare components to supply nutrients to living neurons used in ReLU's classification experiments.
Experiments with living neurons need a way to keep those neurons alive. For ReLU’s work on training neurons to perform classification, that meant supplying them with nutrients through a microfluidic pump.
Arta Osmani built a pump using $6 in parts and spare components. Afras Uddin Mansoor shared the build on LinkedIn, and ReLU reposted the update.
It is a small piece of the experimental setup behind the Biomedical lab’s work with living neural networks: building the hardware that makes the experiments possible.