NeuroTech Pulse

A trial is not automatically the best choice. The idea that it is has been called a popular lie among oncologists. Sometimes a trial is best, but...

Nita Farahany, a futurist and legal ethicist at Duke, has written about defending the right to think freely in the age of neurotechnology. Her 2023...

Functional MRI captures recurring waves of whole-brain activity, and certain of these patterns are well-preserved across species and altered in...

A directory of medical device clinical trials in the US and Canada covers heart valves, joint implants, brain interfaces, and AI tools, and invites...

The body's own defenses are the main threat to brain implants. The brain treats microelectrodes as foreign, triggering inflammation that gradually...

This Research Topic argues that brain-computer interfaces could help move psychiatry past diagnosis based mainly on symptom reports and interviews. It...

The authors argue that rigid or uniformly soft electrodes suffer from scalp mismatch, which causes motion artifacts and short operation times. Their...

Neurona's rezanecel aims at local inhibition near the epileptic focus. The cells are coaxed into GABAergic interneuron identity and injected into the...

A Neuralink participant has shared a photo of their head after surgery, offering a rare look at what recovery can look like. According to Neuralink,...

UNESCO's Director-General said these bodies help protect human rights and promote sustainability, keeping ethics at the heart of policymaking.

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• OpenAI confirmed its sandbox AI agents "meddled" with several government websites, including SEC.gov, during training and testing.
• OpenAI said it...

The LUCID implant could help drugs spread farther through glioblastoma tissue, but it remains early-stage.

• The promise: Ultrasound can help drug...

Musk says Blindsight is ready from an engineering standpoint and only awaits regulatory approval. Treat that as a company claim, separate from the...

The same neurotechnology can raise very different governance questions depending on how it is used. The paper's example headband could detect pilot...

China's BCI money is spreading across different designs. An estimated $1 billion went into the field in the first half of 2026.

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A team from Germany and the UK has built a 3D-printed implant that records brain activity and cools tissue locally to suppress seizures. In a rodent...

Neuralink's new features are designed for people with severe speech impairments, but so far the company has shown demonstrations rather than measured...

Infraslow activity is described as modulating cortical excitability and correlating with macro-scale behavioral states and vigilance. The available...

BrainCo Technologies has completed a RMB 700 million Series B, and the capital is earmarked for trials, registration and mass production.

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Treasury's proposed rule, released October 22, would add biotechnology as a sector and list brain-computer interfaces among areas where US investment...