{"id":158628,"date":"2023-02-21T00:28:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T06:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/brain-implant-startup-backed-by-bezos-and-gates-is-testing-mind-controlled-computing-on-humans"},"modified":"2023-02-21T00:28:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T06:28:35","slug":"brain-implant-startup-backed-by-bezos-and-gates-is-testing-mind-controlled-computing-on-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/brain-implant-startup-backed-by-bezos-and-gates-is-testing-mind-controlled-computing-on-humans","title":{"rendered":"Brain implant startup backed by Bezos and Gates is testing mind-controlled computing on humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-implant-startup-backed-by-bezos-and-gates-is-testing-mind-controlled-computing-on-humans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Synchron\u2019s BCI is inserted through the blood vessels, which Oxley calls the \u201cnatural highways\u201d into the brain. Synchron\u2019s stent, called the Stentrode, is fitted with tiny sensors and is delivered to the large vein that sits next to the motor cortex. The Stentrode is connected to an antenna that sits under the skin in the chest and collects raw brain data that it sends out of the body to external devices.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Yoo, senior director of neuroscience at Synchron, said since the device is not inserted directly into the brain tissue, the quality of the brain signal isn\u2019t perfect. But the brain doesn\u2019t like being touched by foreign objects, Yoo said, and the less invasive nature of the procedure makes it more accessible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s roughly about 2,000 interventionalists who can perform these procedures,\u201d Yoo told CNBC. \u201cIt\u2019s a little bit more scalable, compared to, say, open-brain surgery or burr holes, which only neurosurgeons can perform.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synchron\u2019s BCI is inserted through the blood vessels, which Oxley calls the \u201cnatural highways\u201d into the brain. Synchron\u2019s stent, called the Stentrode, is fitted with tiny sensors and is delivered to the large vein that sits next to the motor cortex. The Stentrode is connected to an antenna that sits under the skin in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158628","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}