Topic: neurodegenerative disease
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Aerska's $39M Boost Targets Brain-Delivery for RNA Medicines
Aerska, a Dublin biotech firm, has secured $39 million to develop a delivery system that can transport advanced genetic medicines across the protective blood-brain barrier to treat neurodegenerative diseases. The company's technology aims to use RNA interference to target and reduce the productio...
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Neuralink's Rival: The Mind-Reading Tech That Could Beat It
Mark Jackson, paralyzed due to ALS, controls a computer game using a brain-computer interface (BCI) that translates his neural activity into digital commands, achieving high accuracy. Jackson uses Synchron’s experimental BCI implant, which allows him to perform tasks like texting, emailing, and s...
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AI Decodes Our Scrambled Inner Thoughts
AI is being used to translate neural signals into text, offering a new communication method for people who have lost the ability to speak, such as those with paralysis. In a Stanford study, electrodes on participants' brains captured activity during imagined speech, and an AI algorithm decoded th...
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