Forbes December 10, 2020
They look like earbuds, feel like earbuds—but when you put them in, they’re completely silent. That’s because these earbuds aren’t for playing music or listening in on a video call. Instead, they deliver a finely-tuned electrical field to the brain.
Unveiled today, the earbud-like devices are a revolutionary rheumatoid arthritis treatment pioneered by neurotech startup Nēsos. These wearable therapeutics may sound like science fiction. Even Nēsos founder and CEO, Konstantinos Alataris, calls them a “moonshot idea.” But according to the data from Nēsos’s first clinical study, these devices are hardly far-fetched.
Introducing E-mmunotherapy
Normally, autoimmune diseases are treated with medication. In the case of rheumatoid arthritis, the current best treatments are over-the-counter pills like ibuprofen or prescription immunosuppressants like...
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