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Any word on whether they've solved the glial response problem? Brain implants almost always end up useless long-term because they are attacked and surrounded a

Any word on whether they've solved the glial response problem? Brain implants almost always end up useless long-term because they are attacked and surrounded as foreign objects by the brain's defense system. I admittedly skimmed the neural sewing paper, but from what I saw there wasn't anything new in there about preventing this.

abrichr 7y ago
They mention this in the video, they are solving it by making the implants extremely small and having similar material properties to the brain.
alexgmcm 7y ago
Yeah it seems Nicolelis lab already did incredibly advanced work in rats and apes. But moving to humans with a weaker immune system and a much higher risk of rejection was always extremely difficult/not possible. It'll be interesting to see how they solve this.