Tesla CEO’s med-tech company Neuralink, with an animal-research lab in a Fremont office park, claims it’s developing technology to treat a host of human ailments.
This sick little monkey “readily ate apricots.” That bad little monkey got none. An upset little monkey was “holding hands” with her “buddy” in the next-door cage, calmer after having some Valium, but still pulling on her brain-electrode port.
Musk’s notoriety is drawing attention to the group’s cause. But it is not clear from the release how six-year-old Neuralink – whose accomplishments have impressed some researchers, and which has not been cited by federal overseers – compares to other players in animal testing. “What you see time and again is instances of animals suffering often for days or months,” said Ryan Merkley, director of research advocacy for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the animal-welfare group that obtained the reports. “It is a picture of consistent and chronic mismanagement of basic animal-welfare standards.”
UC Davis spokesman Andy Fell said in a statement that the university’s Primate Center – which keeps 4,000 monkeys for breeding and research – housed Neuralink’s monkeys until 2020, with staff providing veterinary care including “round-the-clock monitoring.”
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