{"id":159503,"date":"2023-03-03T21:36:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T03:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/fda-rejected-human-trial-for-elon-musks-bci-tech"},"modified":"2023-03-03T21:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T03:36:35","slug":"fda-rejected-human-trial-for-elon-musks-bci-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/fda-rejected-human-trial-for-elon-musks-bci-tech","title":{"rendered":"FDA Rejected Human Trial for Elon Musk\u2019s BCI Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fda-rejected-human-trial-for-elon-musks-bci-tech.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Elon Musk\/courtesy of Yichuan Cao\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biospace.com\/employer\/549141\/neuralink\/\">Neuralink<\/a> tried \u2013 and failed \u2013 to secure permission from the FDA to run a human trial of its implantable brain-computer interface (BCI), according to a <em>Reuters <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/neuralink-musk-fda\/\">report<\/a> published Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Citing seven current and former employees, speaking on the condition of anonymity, <em>Reuters <\/em>reported that the regulatory agency found \u201cdozens of issues\u201d with Neuralink\u2019s application that the company must resolve before it can begin studying its tech in humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\/courtesy of Yichuan Cao\/NurPhoto via Getty Images In 2022, Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink tried \u2013 and failed \u2013 to secure permission from the FDA to run a human trial of its implantable brain-computer interface (BCI), according to a Reuters report published Thursday. Citing seven current and former employees, speaking on the condition of anonymity, Reuters [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159503","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}