Elon Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink denies that researchers abused monkeys

A monkey in Neuralink’s in-house facility. | Neuralink

Elon Musk’s company Neuralink has denied claims that university researchers abused monkeys in experiments backed by the brain-computer interface startup. In a statement posted online, Neuralink responded to a federal complaint from the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), which alleged that Neuralink and its partners at the University of California, Davis conducted inhumane tests on animals.

A PCRM statement said that monkeys at UC Davis “had their brains mutilated …

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