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Neuralink has canceled its second human implantation after discovering medical issues in the person who was going to get the brain chip. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

During a recent TED talk, Pillbot co-founder Alex Luebke swallowed a tiny pill, giving audiences a live feed of the inside of his stomach.
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By Victor Tangermann

Neuralink's brain chip is giving the first human patient sick new gaming skills.
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By Victor Tangermann

In a new Bloomberg interview, Neuralink's first human patient recalled the time the brain-computer chip started glitching.
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By Victor Tangermann

Neuralink has known for years that wires in its brain chip are known to "retract," which raises questions on its future and overall safety.
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By Sharon Adarlo

The faulty app for the X2 insulin pump manufactured by Tandem Diabetes Care was causing the the device to unexpectedly shut down.
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By Frank Landymore

As the Wall Street Journal reports, not everything has been going according to plan with Neuralink's first human subject.
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By Victor Tangermann

During a recent interview, the other cofounder of Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant startup, said that he left due to safety concerns. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Gabe "Gaben" Newell, the man behind Steam, has for years been quietly building a BCI company — and it just came out of stealth.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese scientists have developed an implantable battery that ingeniously uses oxygen already inside the human body.
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By Sharon Adarlo

Schwarzenegger announced during an episode of his "Arnold's Pump Club" podcast that he had a pacemaker implanted.
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By Victor Tangermann

A congressman is taking on the FDA for allowing Neuralink to implant a chip into a human's brain without touring its facilities first.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The first patient with a Neuralink implant played Nintendo's Mario Kart video game with his mind in a remarkable and impressive demo video.
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By Sharon Adarlo

According to Elon Musk, Neuralink is making great progress on its "Blindsight" implant, which is "already working in monkeys."
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By Victor Tangermann

AI chip manufacturer Nvidia and the startup Hippocratic AI are teaming up to replace nurses with freaky AI healthcare "agents."
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Doctors are increasingly using AI tools to take clinical notes, a move proponents say will reduce physician burnout and improve patient care.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A 78-year-old man, who has been living inside an iron lung since surviving polio in the 1950s, has passed away. 
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By Victor Tangermann

A surgery team in the UK successfully utilized the recently-released Apple Vision Pro to assist spinal surgery.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists at Pennsylvania State University claim to have become the first to 3D print living human skin tissue onto open wounds of rats.
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By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is claiming that the first human to get a Neuralink chip can move a mouse with their mind — but we have to take his word for it. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A surgical robot burned a woman's small intestine during a procedure, followed ultimately by her death, according to a lawsuit.
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By Sharon Adarlo

An MIT biotechnology student has gotten "Doom" to run on a cell array full of gut bacteria, proving that it really does run on everything.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's Neuralink has implanted its first brain chip into a human subject — which is freaky given what happened to all those monkeys.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk claims Neuralink has successfully implanted a wireless brain chip into a human for the first time.
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By Victor Tangermann

As the world inches closer to mind-reading tech, some scientists are calling to legally enshrine the right to keep our thoughts to ourselves.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have developed a new way to 3D-print inside the human body using a special bioink and ultrasound waves.
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By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have developed a method to keep a brain alive and functioning for several hours without being connected to the body.
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By Sharon Adarlo

An investigation by Wired reveals the grisly complications of Neuralink brain implants in monkeys, including brain swelling and paralysis.
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By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink is officially looking for test subjects for its upcoming human trials.
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By Victor Tangermann

Philips is paying out a gigantic settlement to customers whose breathing machines blew foam and gases into their mouths.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A company has developed a miniaturized in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo incubator, which they hope will be launched into space soon.
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By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have developed a bioreactor that can survive inside a pig that is designed to mimic some of the vital functions of a kidney.
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By Victor Tangermann

Preying upon male insecurity, one urologist's seemingly-miraculous penis enlargement implant may be too good to be true.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A San Diego hospital is refusing to halt surgeries in spite of concerns over strange particles found on surgical trays.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Augmental Technologies has invented a tongue-controlled Bluetooth mouse designed to be worn inside of a user's mouth. In a word: awesome.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers has come up with an implantable fuel cell that can manage type 1 diabetes — and make use of glucose in the body to power itself instead of relying on an external power source.
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By Victor Tangermann

The FBI is alleging that Perryman knowingly created and sold "dummy," plastic medical implants to medical systems and chronic pain patients for $16k each.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's different approaches to augmenting the human bodies with extra robot parts, and it may not even need to involve tricky brain implants.
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By Frank Landymore

A team of engineers in Sydney, Australia has developed a tiny, flexible robotic arm that is designed to 3D-print inside the body.
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By Victor Tangermann

Apple has made breakthroughs in a confidential project that would transform its Apple Watches into noninvasive glucose monitors, Bloomberg reports.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Thanks to a Texan scientist, tere appears to finally be a medically-backed cure for hiccups — and yes, there is a purchase required.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Max Hodak started Neuralink with Elon Musk. But he later left the company and started Science Corp -- and now he's rapidly catching up.
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By Simon Spichak

Reuters reveals a federal probe about animal wellbeing at Neuralink by the USDA Inspector General, at the request of a federal prosecutor.
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By Jon Christian

During a show and tell, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed off what his brain computer interface (BCI) startup Neuralink has been working on.
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By Victor Tangermann

Uganda has officially become a spacefaring nation — and its newly-launched satellite has tech that can 3D print human tissue on board.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Engineer and prototype machinist Brian Stanley has gone viral with a video of a cyborg eye flashlight that can light up an entire room.
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By Victor Tangermann

Austin-based urologist Christopher Yang used his Rivian R1 T pickup truck to literally power a vasectomy procedure during a prolonged Texas power outage.
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By Victor Tangermann

A two year study has restored the vision of 20 people who were significantly visually impaired by using a synthetic cornea implant made out of pig skin.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Fighter pilot training will include augmented reality headsets for combat training to allow jet pilots to compete with enemies from China and Russia.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

Miraculously, surgeons just successfully completed one of the most complicated conjoined twin separations ever recorded — with the help of virtual reality.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pair of robotic arms allowed a partially paralyzed man to eat with a knife and fork, an impressive demonstration that could help many people.
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By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have created a "wearable muscles" exosuit that's designed to give its wearer serious strength boost.
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By Victor Tangermann

One family says their child was left with hearing damage after the boy's Apple AirPods blasted an Amber alert in his ears and filed a lawsuit for damages.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

FDA Approves Vanilla-Flavored Underwear That Protect Against STIs
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

One ER doctor has issued a public service announcement nobody knew we needed: that titanium genital jewelry is, in fact, bad. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A startup called NextSense is working on a pair of earbuds that can record the electrical signals of the brain to study sleeping and mental conditions.
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By Victor Tangermann

Brazilian Military Faces Stiff Questions About Purchase of Penis Implants
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By Noor Al-Sibai

He Jiankui, the scientist who gained wide notoriety for genetically modifying two human babies in 2018, has been released from prison.
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By Jon Christian

Scientists have created a bizarre magnetic slime that can be remotely controlled via a magnetic field, New Scientist reports.
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By Victor Tangermann

A 34-year-old paralyzed man, who even lost the ability to move his eyes due to ALS disease, is able to communicate again through a brain implant.
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By Victor Tangermann

Recipients of bionic eyes from Second Sight are starting to go blind after the company behind the technology stopped supporting their products.
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By Tony Ho Tran

A team of researchers gave sheep vastly improved vision, using bionic eyes surgically implanted behind their retinas. The same could work in humans.
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By Victor Tangermann

A new study details how researchers have used electrical implants connected to a smartphone app to help Michel Roccati walk again after a spinal injury.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Exit International, a non-profit dedicated to assisted suicide advocacy, has developed a 3D-printed suicide capsule dubbed Sarco.
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By Tony Ho Tran