News We’re Watching – FDA Nixes Neuralink Trials, Layoffs at J&J, Novel Knee Implants

This week, we learned that the US FDA thinks Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain interface device isn’t ready for human trials.  Additionally, J&J cut about 300 medtech jobs, Stryker launched a knee implant, and Active Implants’ meniscus replacement device made it to the FDA’s advisory panel calendar. 

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The US Food and Drug Administration rejected Neuralink Corp.’s plans for a human clinical trials of its Link brain interface implant in 2022, according to an investigative report from Reuters.

Over the last four years, Neuralink CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly claimed that the company was ready to start human clinical trials of Link for motor, sensory, visual or neurological impairments – including a presentation to investors in late November

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