Precision Neuroscience · Grey Matter

Precision Neuroscience is a neurotechnology company founded in 2021, among others by the neurosurgeon Benjamin Rapoport, a co-founder of Neuralink, that builds dense electrode films laid on the surface of the cortex without piercing it, and it holds the first regulatory clearance for a component of a next-generation br

Precision Neuroscience. Precision Neuroscience is a neurotechnology company founded in 2021, among others by the neurosurgeon Benjamin Rapoport, a co-founder of Neuralink, that builds dense electrode films laid on the surface of the cortex without piercing it, and it holds the first regulatory clearance for a component of a next-generation brain-computer interface.

Its position is the middle path. Penetrating arrays read single neurons at the cost of damaging tissue; standard surface grids are safe but coarse. The company's Layer 7 films carry 1,024 electrodes each, conform to the cortex, and can be removed, and they enter through a slit under a millimetre wide.

Its clearance came in April 2025, for use on the brain's surface for up to 30 days, which opens a commercial path in surgical brain mapping before any permanent implant.

It gathers data from surgery. Recordings in dozens of patients undergoing brain operations feed its decoders, and in January 2026 it announced a partnership with Medtronic to integrate the array with surgical navigation.

Its long-term product is a permanent, wireless system built on the same films, still in development.

Questions: What does Precision Neuroscience's 30-day clearance allow, and why does it matter? The April 2025 clearance allows the Layer 7 film, 1,024 electrodes on a sheet thinner than a hair, to be placed on the brain's surface for recording, monitoring and stimulation for up to 30 days. That covers a real clinical market today, mapping the cortex during and around brain surgery, so the company can sell and improve the device before any permanent implant is approved. Each use also produces high-resolution human recordings, data that a future permanent interface will need.