neurosurgery

London surgeons perform world’s first AI-guided brain tumor removal

A 48-year-old British man has become the first patient in the world to undergo brain surgery guided by real-time artificial intelligence, in a procedure that saved his eyesight and marks a new frontier for the technology in the operating theater.

Neuralink threads electrodes through intact brain membrane for first time

Neuralink announced on June 30 that it had successfully inserted ultra-thin electrode threads directly through the dura mater — the brain's tough protective membrane — without cutting it open, a first in the company's clinical trials. The procedure, which took…