Activists Push US Government To Investigate Animal Abuse Charges Against Neuralink and UC Davis
Executive Summary
As Neuralink prepares to begin human trials of its Link brain-computer interface device, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is asking the FDA to investigate possible violations of “good laboratory practice” regulations related to the mistreatment of monkeys in pre-clinical tests of the technology.
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