Humans and Technology Blind Patients to Test Bionic Eye Brain Implants The prosthesis could help more people who have lost their vision than a device already on the market. by Emily Mullin 2017-09-18T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines The AI Mind-Merge Vision That Silicon Valley Won’t Give Up Elon Musk and Sam Altman are adamant that our brains must become one with artificial intelligence if we don’t want it to subjugate us. by Jamie Condliffe 2017-03-28T11:50:00-04:00
Rewriting Life This Technology Could Finally Make Brain Implants Practical Harvard Medical School is testing a new design of a brain implant meant to restore vision to the blind. by Tom Simonite 2017-02-09T00:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life DARPA’s New Neural Implant Has a Sneaky Way of Getting Inside Heads Researchers implanted a “stentrode” to record activity in the brains of live sheep without having to cut open their skulls. by Mike Orcutt 2016-02-09T15:20:00-05:00
Biotechnology To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife How one of the inventors of brain-computer interfaces ended up getting one himself. by Adam Piore 2015-11-09T00:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Injectable Implants Could Help Crack the Brain’s Codes A new type of flexible electronic device shows promise for long-term brain mapping and could be a more effective way to provide therapeutic stimulation. by Mike Orcutt 2015-06-19T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life A Swiss Army Knife for Neuroscience Neural probes that combine optics, electronics, and drugs could help unlock the secrets of the brain. by Antonio Regalado 2015-04-21T00:05:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Why Zapping the Brain Helps Parkinson’s Patients Deep brain stimulation could lead to a more effective, self-tuning device for Parkinson’s. by Courtney Humphries 2015-04-13T14:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Work Begins on Brain Stimulator to Correct Memory Can deep brain stimulation affect how well and what we remember? by Andrew Zaleski 2015-04-03T13:30:00-04:00
News Designing Brain Implants to Detect More and Last Longer GE is one of several companies hoping to develop better neural implants for people with brain diseases and paralyzed limbs. by Kevin Bullis 2014-06-27T14:35:23-04:00
