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Elon Musk blamed for primates’ deaths
CONTROVERSIAL tech tycoon ELON MUSK has come under fire for potential animal welfare violations – just as he announced human trials will soon get underway at his brain implant device company, Neuralink. The biotech company, co-founded by Musk in 2016, is working on creating a microchip to enable paralysed people to walk and the blind to see, as well as to treat neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and dementia.
As part of a trial run, microchips were implanted in a dozen macaques that later had to
