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A decade in Nathan Copeland's brain: the Pitt ICMS safety paper lands
On 15 July 2026, Science Translational Medicine published a five-participant, ten-year safety study of intracortical microstimulation in the somatosensory cortex. The Pitt and University of Chicago team led by Robert Gaunt and Charles Greenspon delivered 168 million pulses across 27 combined years of implant time with no serious adverse events. The longest single participant is with very high confidence Nathan Copeland, first implanted on Star Wars Day 2015, still living publicly with the same Utah arrays eleven years later.