Neuralink got FDA clearance for its first human clinical trials in May, with the company initially wanting to test on 10 humans, though that number has since changed to six.
The brain chip has 1,000 electrodes and hopes to help people wirelessly perform computer functions simply by thinking via a “think-and-click” mechanism.
Neuralink, a start-up founded by Musk in 2016, said in November that it was looking for quadriplegics under 40 years old to take part in the human trials.
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/10229821/elon-musk-brain-microchip-neuralink-first-human-test-subject/
Moar info. Terrifying and wonderful.
etween 1958 and 1985, abnormally short children in the UK and the US were given hormones harvested from cadavers to help spur their growth.
The technique was then banned and doctors instead used synthetic hormones after it emerged that some batches were contaminated with prions that led to a fatal and incurable brain disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). CJD itself is closely related to ‘mad cow’ disease.
Academics now believe other medical and surgical procedures might carry a risk of spreading Alzheimer’s as prions — which accumulate in the brain and kill neurons —can survive hospital sterilisation methods.
1. Medical malpractice.
2. Parasites?