{"id":164565,"date":"2023-05-26T00:38:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T05:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/elon-musks-brain-implant-company-neuralink-approved-for-in-human-study"},"modified":"2023-05-26T00:38:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T05:38:03","slug":"elon-musks-brain-implant-company-neuralink-approved-for-in-human-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/elon-musks-brain-implant-company-neuralink-approved-for-in-human-study","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s brain implant company Neuralink approved for in-human study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-brain-implant-company-neuralink-approved-for-in-human-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude17\ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Neuralink, Elon Musk\u2019s brain-implant company, said on Thursday it had received a green light from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to kickstart its first in-human clinical study, a critical milestone after earlier struggles to gain approval.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has predicted on at least four occasions since 2019 that his medical device company would begin human trials for a brain implant to treat severe conditions such as paralysis and blindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude17\ud83d\ude01 Neuralink, Elon Musk\u2019s brain-implant company, said on Thursday it had received a green light from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to kickstart its first in-human clinical study, a critical milestone after earlier struggles to gain approval. Musk has predicted on at least four occasions since 2019 that his medical device company would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164565","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}