Charles Lieber's lab has managed to plug nanowire electronics into live nerve cells, which is a major breakthrough and further evidence that the boundaries between electronic and biological information processing are disappearing, leading to the new science of biotronics.

Here is my news piece in Chemistry World:

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2006/August/24080602.asp

A few years ago, I have also written a feature on previous work in the neuro/electronics field:

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2004/September/computers.asp

and a commentary on the coming age of biotronics:

http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/111202/horizons_biotronics.html