Not exact matches
By comparing how fast the
neural circuits
in the retina perform image - processing operations with how many instructions per second it takes a computer to accomplish similar
work, I believe it is possible to at least coarsely estimate the information - processing power of nervous
tissue — and by extrapolation, that of the entire human nervous system.
Working with the brains of six normal children and seven autistic children ages 2 to 16, most of whom died of drowning, Courchesne has studied neurons under the microscope and even counted the number of
neural cells
in different
tissue samples.
The self - renewable capacity of these cells, their ability to differentiate into several
tissue progenitors (
neural, mesenchymal stem cells...), and the possibility to
work with mutated cell lines define human stem cells as a good basis for screening compounds libraries
in order to discover new potential drugs for monogenic diseases.