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China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
At a tech forum in Beijing last week, a Chinese company unveiled…
Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery
The kidney used in the latest NYU transplant was procured from a…
We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening
Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink has chosen the Barrow Neurological Institute in…
They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War
The Allied soldiers who weren’t killed limped back from the defeat. It…
The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision
Brian Bussard has 25 tiny chips in his brain. They were installed…
He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It Working
Other than rejection of the organ, one of the most common transplant…
This Bag of Cells Could Grow New Livers Inside of People
In early experiments, Lagasse found that if he injected healthy liver cells…
A Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Person for the First Time
Slayman received his first kidney transplant in 2018 from a human donor.…
Neuralink’s First Human Subject Demonstrates His Brain-Computer Interface
On Wednesday, Neuralink introduced the first human subject to receive the company’s…
