Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink is being probed over its shipping methods after an animal rights group contacted the U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. officials said.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine said that public records show untrained Neuralink employees transported "contaminated" devices that were removed from the brains of "infected" monkeys without safely packaging them. The incidents are said to have taken place in 2019 at the University of California, Davis, where experiments on rhesus macaques were performed.
The origins of the technology dates back to the 1960s, but significant advances have been made in recent years. 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. The group said the devices have also have been contaminated with Corynebacterium ulcerans, an "emerging human pathogen" that can produce fatal diphtheria.
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