Founded in 2021 by a co-founder of Neuralink, Precision Neuroscience is an industry competitor that recently conducted its first-ever in-human clinical study.
and Blackrock Neurotech have also created devices with this capability. Precision announced a $41 million Series B funding round in January.
Since the technology worked as expected, future studies will explore further applications in clinical and behavioral contexts, Mermel said. If the trials go according to Precision's plan, patients with severe degenerative diseases like ALS could eventually regain some ability to communicate with loved ones by moving cursors, typing and even accessing social media with their minds.
Rapoport, who has been working on BCI technology for more than 20 years, said seeing Precision's technology on the brain of a human patient for the first time was an "incredibly gratifying" milestone.Dr. Peter Konrad, chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, was the surgeon who physically placed Precision's system onto the patients' brains during their procedures.Patients had Precision's system on their brains for 15 minutes.
Electrodes are already used in practice to help neurosurgeons monitor brain activity during a procedure, but the resolution provided by conventional systems is low. Konrad said standard electrodes are about four millimeters big, while Precision's array can put 500 to 1,000 contacts on that size.
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