Everything We Know About Neuralink's Brain Implant Trial

Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink has announced it is one step closer to putting brain implants in people. Today, the company stated that it will begin recruiting patients with paralysis to test its experimental brain implant and that it has received approval from a hospital institutional review board. Such boards are independent committees assembled to monitor biomedical research involving human subjects and flag any concerns to investigators. Neuralink is dubbing this "the Prime Study," for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface. Neuralink did not specify where the trial will take place, and company representatives did not immediately respond to WIRED's emailed request for an interview.