Podcasts, research, and perspectives from PL Neuro.
Juan Benet
Capital and coordination — not new ideas — are what's standing between us and a real map of the brain and all that it would unlock. New episode with Adam Marblestone, CEO and co-founder of Convergent Research, on connectomics, whole-brain emulation, what neuroscience could teach AI, and mind uploading.
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Sean Escola and David A. Markowitz
PL Neuro exists to break bottlenecks: to define the milestones neurotech and NeuroAI need, drive the research that shifts what's believed possible, and route talent and capital to some of humanity's hardest and most important problems.
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Naveen Rao
The fourth issue of Representations — a limited series on neurotech's evolving business frontier, produced in partnership with PL Neuro. How philanthropy, focused research organizations, and non-profit capital can de-risk the moonshots that private VC and federal grants alone won't fund.
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PL Neuro Team
The third roadmap in Protocol Labs' BCI Roadmap Series examines how to popularize the promise of neurotechnology — building the cultural narratives, trusted messengers, and public understanding needed to carry the field from clinical breakthroughs to mainstream adoption.
Juan Benet
Why cryonics and mind emulation could mean we don't have to die, how nanotech could rebuild the physical world, and the case for Existential Hope — picturing futures worth building. New episode with Allison Duettmann, CEO of the Foresight Institute, on neurotech, whole-brain emulation, longevity, and the futures worth working toward.
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PL Neuro Team
The second roadmap in Protocol Labs' BCI Roadmap Series examines how neurotechnology can expand beyond the clinic into consumer products — the technical, regulatory, and market steps required to bring brain–computer interfaces to everyday users at scale.
Juan Benet
How neurons actually compute, and why the path to understanding the brain runs through reading its wiring — not just recording it. New episode with Dr. Konrad Kording, professor of bioengineering and neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania and co-director of CIFAR's Learning in Machines & Brains program. Konrad works at the intersection of causality, […]
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Juan Benet
Reaching the brain through its blood vessels, restoring autonomy to people who've lost it, and the future of BCIs after movement. New episode with Dr. Tom Oxley, co-founder and CEO of Synchron. Synchron has built a BCI called the Stentrode, which reaches the motor cortex via a blood vessel — leveraging the approach of cardiovascular […]
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Naveen Rao
The third issue of Representations — a limited series on neurotech's evolving business frontier, produced in partnership with PL Neuro. Why culture, purpose, and talent are the real drivers of neural engineering's future — plus a BCI hiring map and the state of who's building what.
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Juan Benet
Biohybrid interfaces, closed-loop gene therapies, and the push to put transformative brain technology in every clinic. Episode 3 features Dr. Jacques Carolan, a founding Program Director at ARIA, the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency. He directs two neurotech programs aimed at one of the most important opportunity spaces: developing tools and systems to interface, […]
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Juan Benet
Precision Neuroscience’s co-founder and CSO on building Layer 7, a BCI that sits on the surface of the brain, and why neural data is the new genomics. Ben is co-founder and CSO of Precision Neuroscience, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Scientific Director at Mount Sinai. Previously, […]
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Naveen Rao
The second issue of Representations — a limited series on neurotech's evolving business frontier, produced in partnership with PL Neuro. A Q1 BCI market map, a read of the PL Neuro BCI Roadmap Series, and why the infrastructure to build a sustainable restorative-BCI business is the next frontier.
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PL Neuro Team
A roadmap for mapping every synaptic connection in the human brain within ten years. In this preprint, Moritz Helmstaedter — Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research — lays out a roadmap for obtaining a complete human connectome at synaptic resolution within the next decade: the technical, methodological, and infrastructural steps the field […]
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Juan Benet
How a silicon chip is giving blind patients their sight back — and what comes next for the human brain. Max Hodak is the founder and CEO of Science Corp (previously co-founded Neuralink and Transcriptic). Science is building PRIMA, a retinal prosthetic that’s restoring meaningful vision for patients with blindness caused by age-related macular degeneration. […]
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Naveen Rao
The first issue of Representations — a limited series on neurotech's evolving business frontier, produced in partnership with PL Neuro. If BCI companies are data companies, and data companies are AI companies, are BCI companies becoming AI companies?
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A proposal for an 'ultrastructure-to-dynamics compiler': a learned mapping from molecularly annotated brain ultrastructure to simulator-ready, uncertainty-aware physiological parameters — turning anatomical maps into predictive models of circuit dynamics.
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PL Neuro Team
The first roadmap in Protocol Labs' BCI Roadmap Series examines how brain–computer interface companies can smooth the path to clinical revenue — the reimbursement, regulatory, and go-to-market steps that turn breakthrough devices into sustainable businesses.
PL Neuro Team
The opening report in Protocol Labs' Brain–Computer Interface Roadmap Series, laying out a strategic vision for where the field is headed and the bottlenecks that must be cleared to get there.
Patrick Mineault
A proposal that the jagged intelligence of modern AI stems from a missing training signal — 'cognitive dark matter': brain functions that shape behavior yet are hard to infer from behavior alone. The paper outlines data types that could surface it for model training.
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