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A man with ALS regained his ability to communicate using a Blackrock Neurotech text-to-speech brain implant.

Neuralink is testing its implant designed to give paralyzed patients the ability to use digital devices by thinking alone.

Synchron's device is delivered to the brain via the large vein that sits next to the motor cortex in the brain.

The inspectors identified quality control lapses at the Neuralink's California animal research facility.

Those with paralysis due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis may qualify for the study, Neuralink said.

Elon Musk's Neuralink has now reached a significant milestone, having received FDA approval to begin human trials.

The FDA nod "represents an important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people, Neuralink said.

Neuralink has been talking to Barrow Neurological Institute to help carry out the human trials.

Elon Musk's agenda appears to have been thwarted by the US authorities, which have not authorised these first human trials.

USDA is investigating Neuralink, a medical device company that is developing brain implants, over potential animal-welfare violations.

Neuralink Corp is developing a brain implant it hopes will help paralyzed people walk again and cure other neurological ailments.

US military researchers say they will soon unveil a brain implant that could one day restore a wounded soldier's memory.