The biotechnology startup Science on Monday launched a new platform that aims to make it easier for other companies to develop medical devices.
Hodak co-founded Neuralink and served as the company's president until he announced his departure in 2021. At Neuralink, Hodak helped develop a BCI system that is designed to be implanted directly into the brain, but at Science, he is working on an implant that doesn't directly touch the brain at all.
The Science Eye relies on a thin, flexible micro-LED array that is surgically implanted over the retina. The implant controls a group of light-sensitive cells in the optic nerve that Science alters through a form of optogenetic gene therapy. When one pixel is turned on in the array, a cell is turned on in the optic nerve, which can be used to drive the nerve and send vision into the brain.
Hodak said the resulting images will look different than what people with healthy eyes are used to – at least for the first iteration of the technology – but that it will be very restorative for patients with no light sensitivity. Eventually, he said thinks Science will be able to reproduce high-resolution color vision.
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