{"id":76506,"date":"2018-03-04T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T18:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/brainq-aims-to-cure-stroke-and-spinal-cord-injuries-through-mind-reader-tech"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:03:22","slug":"brainq-aims-to-cure-stroke-and-spinal-cord-injuries-through-mind-reader-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/brainq-aims-to-cure-stroke-and-spinal-cord-injuries-through-mind-reader-tech","title":{"rendered":"BrainQ aims to cure stroke and spinal cord injuries through mind-reader tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brainq-aims-to-cure-stroke-and-spinal-cord-injuries-through-mind-reader-tech2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Israel-based <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/brainqtech.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">BrainQ<\/a> is a new neurotech startup hoping to take on brain-computer interface (BCI) companies like Braintree founder Bryan Johnson\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kernel.co\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Kernel<\/a> and Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neuralink.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Neuralink<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear yet what Musk\u2019s startup intends to do with the computer chips it plans to put in our heads, but Johnson\u2019s startup says it is focused on developing \u201ctechnologies to understand and treat neurological diseases in new and exciting ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whatever sector each company goes for, both plan to insert chips in our brains to connect us to computers \u2014 the consequences of which could have dramatic effects on human memory, intelligence, communication and many other areas that could rocket humanity forward, should they work out.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/02\/27\/brainq-aims-to-cure-stroke-and-spinal-cord-injuries-through-mind-reader-tech\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/02\/27\/brainq-aims-to-cure-stroke...ader-tech\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel-based BrainQ is a new neurotech startup hoping to take on brain-computer interface (BCI) companies like Braintree founder Bryan Johnson\u2019s Kernel and Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink. It\u2019s not clear yet what Musk\u2019s startup intends to do with the computer chips it plans to put in our heads, but Johnson\u2019s startup says it is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"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-76506","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\/76506","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76582,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76506\/revisions\/76582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}