Before organoids, before Cortical Labs, before anyone called biology 'programmable' — Itzhak Bentov was already describing the human body as a computational system with a clock speed, a data format, and a boot sequence.
Nine years after Florian Markowetz declared all biology computational biology, the field has inverted. We no longer crunch data about life. We program life itself as the ultimate computing substrate.
Four USB-sized organ chips built from astronaut bone-marrow cells are flying on Artemis II — living biological computers designed to model, in real time, how the human body responds to deep-space radiation and microgravity.
Rat brain cells trained with FORCE learning generated sine waves, Lorenz attractors, and square waves in real time. Wetware just crossed into supervised AI territory.
China just approved the world's first commercial invasive BCI. This isn't a research milestone — it's a geopolitical opening move.
DNA is no longer just a storage molecule — it's the hardware for autonomous nanorobots that sense, compute, and act inside living systems. Here's what the 2025–2026 breakthroughs actually mean.
When AI intelligence becomes a commodity, energy efficiency is the only moat left. The companies that win the next decade will own proprietary wetware — not better software.
The Cortical Labs CL1 is the world's first commercial biological computer. Here's what real customers are actually doing with it in 2026.
From John C. Lilly's 1968 vision of the brain as programmable hardware to Cortical Labs' $35,000 CL1, biocomputing has crossed from philosophy into product. Here's how we got here.