Florida scientists have grown a brain in a petri dish and taught it to fly a fighter plane. Scientists at the university of Florida taught the 'brain', which was grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a rat embryo, to pilot an F-22 jet simulator. It was taught to control the flight path, even in mock hurricane-strength winds. TWO RELATED LINKS: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1119_041119_brain_petri_dish.html#main http://www.bme.ufl.edu:16080/research/projects/detailproject.php?RP_id=5