{"id":207794,"date":"2025-03-04T12:13:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/biohybrid-bci-adds-more-neurons-to-the-brain"},"modified":"2025-03-04T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:13:50","slug":"biohybrid-bci-adds-more-neurons-to-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/biohybrid-bci-adds-more-neurons-to-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Biohybrid BCI Adds More Neurons to the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biohybrid-bci-adds-more-neurons-to-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brain-computer interfaces have enabled people with paralysis to move a computer cursor with their mind and reanimate their muscles with their thoughts. But the performance of the technology \u2014 how easily and accurately a BCI user\u2019s thoughts move a cursor, for example\u2014is limited by the number of channels communicating with the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Science Corporation, one of the companies working towards commercial brain-computer interfaces(BCIs), is forgoing the traditional method of sticking small metal electrodes into the brain in favor of a biology-based approach to increase the number of communication channels safely. \u201cWhat can I stick a million of, or what could I stick 10 million of, into the brain that won\u2019t hurt it?\u201d says Alan Mardinly, Science Corp co-founder.<\/p>\n<p>The answer: Neurons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain-computer interfaces have enabled people with paralysis to move a computer cursor with their mind and reanimate their muscles with their thoughts. But the performance of the technology \u2014 how easily and accurately a BCI user\u2019s thoughts move a cursor, for example\u2014is limited by the number of channels communicating with the brain. Science Corporation, one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207794","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=207794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}