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Our 2026 summer interns, in their own words and their own edit. We were lucky to have them!
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Big news today. Science's PRIMA visual prosthesis, our retinal implant for macular degeneration, has received its CE mark, which means marketing approval in Europe. This is a huge milestone to begin to have a device like this commercially available to regular patients. 1/
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We are thrilled to welcome @nevadasanchez as Executive Vice President of Engineering.
Nevada co-founded Butterfly Network where he conceived the worldโs first ultrasound system on a chip and built the engineering organization that took it from a prototype to a globally deployed platform.
Nevada joins us at a time of significant growth as we begin the European commercial launch of PRIMA, our BCI retinal implant. We are also accelerating development of our Biohybrid neural interface and Vessel perfusion programs, and expanding the Science Foundry, with its comprehensive MEMS fabrication capabilities.
science.xyz/news/leadership-โฆ
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Lily M. Turkstra et al. from UC, Santa Barbara find that gamification enhances user engagement and task performance in prosthetic vision testing.
doi.org/10.1167/tvst.15.5.16
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Come visit us at the VM Retina Meeting 2026 in Munich from Thurs, April 16 โ Sat, April 18 โ booth #7.
Meet our team and see the PRIMA implant, next-gen glasses, and implantation device up close.
PRIMA is our fully wireless, photovoltaic retinal implant which in clinical trials restored central vision to patients with geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration. In a landmark clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, ~80% of participants demonstrated clinically meaningful improvement in visual acuity at 12 months, and 84% reported the ability to read letters, numbers, and words.
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๐ Excited to share our new paper inย Nature: โActive Dissociation of Intracortical Spiking and High Gamma Activity.โย ๐ง
Huge thanks to my advisors first: @SlutzkyLab @joshuaiglaser
Paper link: nature.com/articles/s41586-0โฆ
Here are some digests that walk you through the results ๐๐ผ
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"Are BCI companies becoming AI companies?"
@naveen101's Representations - a new series exploring neurotechโs evolving business frontier - digs into #neurotech business Innovation in the #AI era
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#Neurotech innovation starts at the device level. @IEEEEDS advances electron and ion-based devices connecting materials, fabrication, and applications that are shaping tomorrowโs #brain-inspired breakthroughs. @IEEEBrain is proud to have it as a supporter: eds.ieee.org
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As we accelerate the development of our Biohybrid BCI program, we are thrilled to welcome Dr. Murat Gรผnel as Science's new Medical Director for Brain-Computer Interfaces. Dr. Gรผnel is Chair of Neurosurgery at Yale School of Medicine, Neurosurgeon-in-Chief of Yale New Haven Health System, and a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Read the blog post in the comments.
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We have recently launched the Trusted Neurotechnology Initiative (TNI) led by Prof. Takemi @mitsuaki1988.
Building on our Moonshot efforts to develop trustworthy neurotechnology, TNI aims to establish practical frameworks, standards, and ecosystems that ensure neurotechnology is developed and deployed responsibly.
Through TNI, we hope to connect this effort globally, working with partners across academia, industry, and policy to shape a future where neurotechnology is both transformative and trusted.
trustedneurotechnology.org/
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Brain tissue is as soft as gelatin.
Most silicon electrodes implanted into it are ~1,000,000x stiffer. That mismatch isnโt a small detail, itโs one of the main reasons BCIs fail over time. #Neurotechnology #BCI #BrainComputerInterface #Neuroscience #MaterialsScience xitter.cf/BIONIC_Lab/status/2037โฆ
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#Brain-driven interfaces are getting smarter. @NatMachIntell has new research on how neural signals and adaptive #algorithms learn together, predicting behavior, improving control, and enabling more intuitive humanโmachine interaction shaped by the brain: go.nature.com/3PmPIMV
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10 days. Global experts. Real #neurotech systems. @gtec_BCIโs Spring School 2026 brings researchers, engineers, and clinicians together to explore #BCI tech from signal acquisition to clinical translation, plus the BR41N.IO global hackathon: bit.ly/gtec-SpringSchool2026
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"I think that BCI is not a specific product, I think there's going to be a bunch of BCI companies going after different applications where different types of probes will make sense. To me, it firmly feels like we're in the takeoff era."
Science founder and CEO @maxhodak_ joined @ycombinator to talk about the future of brain-computer interfaces.
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Science's PRIMA clinical trials are expanding to Australia, and will include inherited retinal diseases, such as Stargardt disease and retinitis pigmentosa.
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Pls RT: We're hiring! Looking for a postdoc research fellow to join our study of individual differences in plasticity in #blindness (+ possible extension to #deafness) using fMRI.
apply.interfolio.com/177838
#hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
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Presenting โHuman in the loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortexโ again this afternoon at #SfN!!
Come discuss how do we learn to more efficiently write into the visual brain!!
An amazing collaboration between the Biomedical Neuroengineering group @nBioUMH in UMH Elche, Spain and the Bionic Vision Lab in UCSB, Santa Barbara, US
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Join us at the Cajal Encounters in Amsterdam!
Neurotechnology, Neuro-rights and AI
Registration link in the thread below
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Iโm hiring a Neuroengineer Intern for Neuralinkโs Next Gen team to help build the next generation of brain-computer interfaces. You will work with an interdisciplinary team to develop computational models of prosthetic vision, plan and run neural stimulation experiments, and apply first-principles engineering to address unmet medical needs today and unlock human potential tomorrow. Weโre looking for critical thinkers with strong quantitative skills and a bias for action. Bonus if you include a link to your standout project (paper, repo, demo) in your application, with a note on your contribution. Details in the job post: neuralink.com/careers/apply/โฆ
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For a long time, some have daydreamed about whether neural networks can learn to effectively synthesize stimulation patterns to write information into the brain.
For the first time, we have demonstrated that ๐๐๐ญ๐-๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ ๐ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง is possible.
Introducing ๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ -๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ค๐๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ฑ
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/โฆ
An all-stars collaboration between
๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฒ๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ'๐ฌ Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionorg at @UCSB (USA)
๐ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ก-๐๐ก๐ข๐ข ๐๐ข๐ฎ'๐ฌ lab at The Institute of Neuroinformatics @ETH_en in Switzerland and
๐ ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐๐จ ๐
๐๐ซ๐ง๐ฬ๐ง๐๐๐ณ'๐ฌ Biomedical Neuroengineering lab @nBioUMH at @IB_UMH in Spain.
This dream project was spearheaded by ๐๐๐ก๐ฎ๐ฬ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐, ๐๐๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฅ๐๐ฒ @jacob_granley
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๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐จ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ข @GraniFabrizio, and Iโm thrilled to be part of this monumental effort!
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