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Elon Musk's Neuralink may be using monkeys to give humans ‘superpowers’

Elon Musk-owned Neuralink is reportedly testing brain implants in monkeys that can eventually give humans "superpowers," including capabilities beyond normal vision. While the device’s initial goal ...
ucdavis.edu

Using Genetics to Understand Decision-Making in Monkeys

UC Davis Ph.D. candidate Abigail Morris is studying how environmental factors influence the decisions individual monkeys make when they disperse from their family groups in the Amazon. (Courtesy photo ...
Road to VR

Monkeys Navigate Virtual Worlds Using Thought Alone in New BCI Study

University researchers at KU Leuven in Belgium have shown that monkeys can navigate complex virtual environments using a brain-computer interface (BCI) setup, which remarkably involves relatively ...
EDN

Monkeys ‘Move and Feel’ Virtual Objects Using Only Their Brains

In a first-ever demonstration of a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body, two monkeys trained at the Duke University Center for Neuroengineering learned to employ brain ...
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FDA guidance would cut back on using monkeys for safety testing of monoclonal antibodies

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued guidance for sponsors in reducing testing of single-target monoclonal antibodies in monkeys from six months to three months, or even eliminating ...