{"id":125607,"date":"2021-07-28T19:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T02:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/this-20-person-biotech-firm-just-beat-elon-musks-neuralink-in-getting-the-ok-to-test-brain-chip-implants-in-humans-with-paralysis"},"modified":"2021-07-28T19:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T02:22:38","slug":"this-20-person-biotech-firm-just-beat-elon-musks-neuralink-in-getting-the-ok-to-test-brain-chip-implants-in-humans-with-paralysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/this-20-person-biotech-firm-just-beat-elon-musks-neuralink-in-getting-the-ok-to-test-brain-chip-implants-in-humans-with-paralysis","title":{"rendered":"This 20-person biotech firm just beat Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink in getting the OK to test brain chip implants in humans with paralysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-20-person-biotech-firm-just-beat-elon-musks-neuralink-in-getting-the-ok-to-test-brain-chip-implants-in-humans-with-paralysis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Synchron has beat rival Neuralink to human trials of its \u201cimplantable brain computer interface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chip will be studied in six patients later this year as a possible aid for paralyzed people.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk previously used Neuralink\u2019s chip in a monkey, which then played video games with its mind.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Synchron beat out rival Neuralink, led by Elon Musk, to get the FDA go-ahead for human trials of a chip implant that makes a brain-computer interface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synchron has beat rival Neuralink to human trials of its \u201cimplantable brain computer interface.\u201d The chip will be studied in six patients later this year as a possible aid for paralyzed people. Elon Musk previously used Neuralink\u2019s chip in a monkey, which then played video games with its mind. Synchron beat out rival Neuralink, led [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}