C.Martel
3rd May 2025, 01:57 PM
On Wednesday, a small neurotech startup called Synchron was granted regulatory approval by the FDA to start testing out its brain implant on human volunteers.
The news puts the upstart Synchron way ahead of rival companies in the industry, including Elon Musk's lavishly-funded Neuralink, which has yet to make the jump from experimenting on animals to humans.
With that go-ahead, Synchron announced that it plans to begin preliminary human studies later this year on what it calls the Stentrode, Insider reports. The Stentrode is a neural implant that taps into the brain through the jugular, and the goal is to use it like an implanted brain-computer interface to grant six volunteers with paralysis control over external devices.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/neuralink-rival-approval-test-brain-implant-humans
The news puts the upstart Synchron way ahead of rival companies in the industry, including Elon Musk's lavishly-funded Neuralink, which has yet to make the jump from experimenting on animals to humans.
With that go-ahead, Synchron announced that it plans to begin preliminary human studies later this year on what it calls the Stentrode, Insider reports. The Stentrode is a neural implant that taps into the brain through the jugular, and the goal is to use it like an implanted brain-computer interface to grant six volunteers with paralysis control over external devices.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/neuralink-rival-approval-test-brain-implant-humans