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Activists Push US Government To Investigate Animal Abuse Charges Against Neuralink and UC Davis

 
• By Reed Miller

As Neuralink prepares to begin human trials of its Link brain-computer interface device, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is asking the FDA to investigate possible violations of “good laboratory practice” regulations related to the mistreatment of monkeys in pre-clinical tests of the technology.

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Animal welfare activists are pressing the US government to investigate Neuralink for repeated violations of the Federal Animal Welfare Act in the pre-clinical testing of its Link brain-computer interface.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) – a Washington, DC-based non-profit group that claims 17,000 physician members – asked the Food and Drug Administration to open an inquiry into...

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