Scientists may develop new ways to treat diseases, but drugs and implants could also be used to control our thoughts and emotions, or even change who we are — the stuff of dystopian novels.
Where do we draw the line between life and death?|Nancy Shute|September 6, 2020|Science News
Unlike engineering, the solution to the brain isn’t more channels or more implants.
Neuralink’s Wildly Anticipated New Brain Implant: the Hype vs. the Science|Shelly Fan|September 1, 2020|Singularity Hub
Rather than removing the entire implant, it could potentially be useful to leave the threads inside the brain and only remove the top cap—the Link device that contains the processing chip.
Neuralink’s Wildly Anticipated New Brain Implant: the Hype vs. the Science|Shelly Fan|September 1, 2020|Singularity Hub
The electrodes of the implant itself are “sewn” into the brain with automated robotic surgery, relying on brain imaging techniques to avoid blood vessels and reduce brain bleeding.
Neuralink’s Wildly Anticipated New Brain Implant: the Hype vs. the Science|Shelly Fan|September 1, 2020|Singularity Hub
Researchers gave mixed reviews of Elon Musk’s colorful demonstration on Friday of Neuralink, his sci-fi startup that’s developing a brain implant.
Neurologists aren’t so sure about Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant startup|dzanemorris|August 31, 2020|Fortune
I can see the implant in there, and see where the muscle is snatching that implant up.
Azealia Banks Opens Up About Her Journey from Stripping to Rap Stardom|Marlow Stern|November 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
McDonough helped create an implant prototype, but in the end, “nothing happened to it,” Williams said in court testimony.
Patients Screwed in Spine Surgery ‘Scam’|The Center for Investigative Reporting|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
However, if several embryos do progress, it can be dangerous to implant them all, since that can lead to multiple pregnancies.
Will Mississippi Ban IVF?|Michelle Goldberg|October 25, 2011|DAILY BEAST
In Germany, for instance, you create one embryo and you implant that embryo.
Will Mississippi Ban IVF?|Michelle Goldberg|October 25, 2011|DAILY BEAST
I saw her brother gaze silently; saw him stoop and implant a kiss––and turn away.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930|Various
When this remains open, the cancerous cells escape freely and implant themselves on the pelvic peritoneum and adjacent organs.
A System of Operative Surgery, Volume IV (of 4)|Various
But have they power to destroy vice or implant virtue in the heart?
Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's 'De Consolatione Philosophiae'|Geoffrey Chaucer
In colleges grown from English seedlings we sought to implant grafts from German universities.
College Teaching|Paul Klapper
Such examples show conclusively that the lawgiver can implant in youthful minds any beliefs which he tries to implant.
Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume IV (of 4)|George Grote
British Dictionary definitions for implant
implant
verb (ɪmˈplɑːnt) (tr)
to establish firmly; inculcate; instilto implant sound moral principles
to plant or embed; infix; entrench
surgery
to graft (a tissue) into the body
to insert (a radioactive substance, hormone, etc) into the tissues
noun (ˈɪmˌplɑːnt)
anything implanted, esp surgically, such as a tissue graft or hormone