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Brain chips in humans by 2022?

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Publish date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021, 12:43 PM
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ELON Musk hopes to be able to implant microchips in the human brain from 2022 via his Neuralink company. The chip, which has already been tested on monkeys, can record and stimulate brain activity.
 
It is intended for medical use. Initially, it could potentially enable people with physical disabilities to recover their abilities to move.
 
Could Neuralink chips be coming to humans in 2022? In a short interview with The Wall Street Journal at the CEO Council Summit recently, Musk gave an update on his Neuralink project. The American entrepreneur announced that Neuralink hoped to begin human trials as soon as 2022. However, it must wait for approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which issues mandates to allow the marketing of drugs.
 
The first human trials have been postponed for several years. A first date was scheduled for late 2020, then pushed back to 2021 and now to 2022. Neuralink has created a microchip device that is implanted directly into the brain to control digital devices or reduce motor disabilities. 
 
"We hope to have this in our first humans — which will be people who have severe spinal-cord injuries like tetraplegics, quadriplegics — next year, pending FDA approval," said the Neuralink chief executive officer.
 
The N1 Link is a 1,024-channel device that Neuralink has manufactured for therapeutic use in patients. Once the device is implanted in a patient's brain, it supposedly transmits data invisibly via a wireless connection. Neuralink has been conducting trials on monkeys for several years with encouraging results.
 
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