New TechnologiesLab-Grown Brains Growing More Powerful – “The capacity for adaptive computation is intrinsic to cortical tissue itself.” Posted on March 16, 2026 by Administrator Back in 1907, American biologist Henry Van Peters Wilson discovered that sponges will re-form into living creatures after their cells are broken apart through a fine mesh screen — demonstrating that the cells of living organisms contained something telling them how to build complex, multi-cellular structures.