{"id":189049,"date":"2024-05-10T01:24:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T06:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/neuralink-admits-that-implants-threads-have-retracted-from-first-patients-brain-possibly-due-to-air-in-skull"},"modified":"2024-05-10T01:24:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T06:24:31","slug":"neuralink-admits-that-implants-threads-have-retracted-from-first-patients-brain-possibly-due-to-air-in-skull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/neuralink-admits-that-implants-threads-have-retracted-from-first-patients-brain-possibly-due-to-air-in-skull","title":{"rendered":"Neuralink Admits That Implant\u2019s Threads Have Retracted From First Patient\u2019s Brain, Possibly Due to Air in Skull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuralink-admits-that-implants-threads-have-retracted-from-first-patients-brain-possibly-due-to-air-in-skull2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not ideal!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In January, multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/elon-musk-says-neuralink-has-implanted-brain-chip-in-human-subject\" class=\"\">announced that<\/a> his brain-computer interface startup Neuralink had successfully implanted a wireless brain chip into a human subject for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next couple of months, 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh was shown <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/elon-musk-neuralink-subject-update\" class=\"\">moving a cursor<\/a> with his mind, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/paralyzed-neuralink-patient-gaming\" class=\"\">playing Civilization VI<\/a> and even a fast-paced <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/neuralink-patient-mario-kart\" class=\"\">round of Mario Kart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/neuralinks-first-brain-chip-implant-in-a-human-appeared-flawless-there-was-a-problem-637f1adc\" class=\"\">the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> reports<\/a>, there have been complications behind the scenes. After it reached out to Neuralink, the company conceded in a <a href=\"https:\/\/neuralink.com\/blog\/prime-study-progress-update-user-experience\/\" class=\"\">blog post<\/a> that there have been issues with the implant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not ideal! In January, multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk announced that his brain-computer interface startup Neuralink had successfully implanted a wireless brain chip into a human subject for the first time. Over the next couple of months, 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh was shown moving a cursor with his mind, playing Civilization VI and even a fast-paced round [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"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-189049","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\/189049","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}