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Nature issues correction to competing interests statement in Parkinson's brain network study

The journal Nature published an author correction to a previously published paper on Parkinson's disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder. The correction updates an incomplete competing interests statement, disclosing multiple authors' financial ties to companies including Neural Galaxy, Galaxy Brain Scientific, Beijing Pins Medical, Turing Medical, and others, along with patent holdings and consulting arrangements. The statement clarifies these companies had no role in the study's design, analysis, or publication decision.

nature.com · 2026-10-13

Encora Therapeutics wins FDA clearance for wristband tremor device born from MIT class project

A wearable device that vibrates the wrist to reduce tremor symptoms, originally built by MIT students in a 2017 product engineering course, has received FDA clearance for treating essential tremor in adults. The student team formally launched as Encora Therapeutics in 2020 and ran clinical trials, with one study finding 78 percent of participants reported benefits after 90 days of home use. Co-founder Daniel Carballo described the near decade-long process from prototype to clearance as difficult but rewarding.

news.mit.edu · 2026-10-12