That sounds like an interesting project. Only one thing, it says that the biological neurons in their simulation can do more than normal artificial ones, but arnt they modelling with artificial neurons?

Okay, I couldn't find where they made that claim. Don't sue me, I was only skimming. However... "normal" artificial neurons are often simple things summing up their inputs and providing an output based on a simple mathematical function. When folks talk about Artificial Neural Networks, that's basically what they mean. There are different ways of training the networks, different ways of connecting them, and different ways they can be triggered. ANNs work, and so are in use all over the place. That's no guarantee that they are an accurate model of a real neuron, anymore than a robot arm has to be an accurate model of a human arm.

Real neurons in a real brain work in a more complicated way. There are lots of different neurotransmitting chemicals, lots of connections, goodness knows about updating and training.

While obviously any neuron in this computer will be artificial, it seems that the important thing for the researchers is that it is an accurate model of a biological neuron. For most AI researchers this is not important.