Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup unveils pig with computer chip in its brain

Title:
Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup unveils pig with computer chip in its brain

Author:
Tina Bellon

Published:
Global News, 28 August 2020
https://globalnews.ca/news/7304984/elon-musk-neuroscience-pig-computer-chip/

From the article:
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk‘s neuroscience startup Neuralink on Friday unveiled a pig that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months, demonstrating an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant.

Co-founded by Musk in 2016, San Francisco-based Neuralink aims to implant wireless brain-computer interfaces that include thousands of electrodes in the most complex human organ to help cure neurological conditions like Alzheimer’s, dementia and spinal cord injuries and ultimately fuse humankind with artificial intelligence.

Deadly bacterial infection in pigs deciphered [University of Bern, 4 June 2020] & Scholarly Article [May 2020]: CD31 (PECAM-1) Serves as the Endothelial Cell-Specific Receptor of Clostridium perfringens β-Toxin

Title:
Deadly bacterial infection in pigs deciphered
 
Published:
University of Bern, 4 June 2020
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From the article:
New-born piglets often die painfully from infection with an intestinal bacterium. A team of researchers from 3 faculties at the University of Bern has now discovered how the bacterium causes fatal intestinal bleeding. They have thus made a breakthrough in veterinary research. Promising prospects for vaccinations and medications for use in humans too have now opened up.
 
See also the scholarly article:
Julia Bruggisser, Basma Tarek, Marianne Wyder, Philipp Müller, Christoph von Ballmoos, Guillaume Witz, Gaby Enzmann, Urban Deutsch, Britta Engelhardt, and Horst Posthaus: CD31 (PECAM-1) serves as the Endothelial Cell-Specific Receptor of Clostridium perfringens β-Toxin. Cell Host and Microbes, 4 June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2020.05.003