ELON MUSK’S BRAIN implant company Neuralink is being investigated over its shipping methods after an animal rights group contacted the US Department of Transportation.
Neuralink is one of many groups working on linking brains to computers, efforts aimed at helping to treat brain disorders, overcoming brain injuries and other applications. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine said medical files it obtained for the monkeys suggest that transported neural devices may have been contaminated with antibiotic-resistant pathogens including Staphylococcus and Klebsiella, which can cause pneumonia, bloodstream infections, and meningitis.