MIT Invents Injectable Brain Chips. "This technology is not just confined to the brain, but could also be extended to other parts of the body in future.

futurism.com ^ | Nov 16, 2025 | Joe Wilkins

[daniel1212]

They describe the system, called Circulatronics, as more of a treatment platform than a one-off brain chip. Working with researchers from Wellesley College and Harvard University, the MIT team recently released a paper on the new technology, which they describe as an autonomous bioelectronic implant.

As New Atlas points out, the Circulatronics platform starts with an injectable swarm of sub-cellular sized wireless electronic devices, or “SWEDs,” which can travel into inflamed regions of the patient’s brain after being injected into the bloodstream. They do so by fusing with living immune cells, called monocytes, forming a sort of cellular cyborg.

After they’ve been injected, the SWEDs then follow the “natural trafficking” of the immune cells to sites of inflammation in the brain, which play a significant role in many neurological diseases

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TOPICS: Education; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: borg; education; mindcontrol; nanoprobes; psychological; resistanceisfutile; science; swed

[stanne]

American students at MIT did this?

[Hot Tabasco]

The most fascinating thing I've seen in recent time was a young girl with removable, prosthetic arms controlled by her brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXbqqeUU7js

[cuz1961]

An MRI scan might be unpleasant if you had all these chips exit your body at once.

[Getready]

If these things don’t decay or get metabolized by the body they will eventually get lodged somewhere in the body. Who knows what will happen? People are afraid of forever chemicals, what about forever electrical circuits?
As an example suppose they lodge in the blood vessels which supply the brain or eye? Cause they cause a hemorrhage?
We know that blood vessels hemorrhage every so often, would these objects interfere with clotting mechanisms which stop the hemorrhage?

[dfwgator]

[Sirius Lee]

My film career has just begun.

If you're into nanobots on the brain, then this book series cries out for a movie or mini-series treatment.

[Magnum44]

[plain talk]

Sounds a bit sloppy to me. Inject nanotechnology devices into the blood and some of them somehow make their way into the brain?

[Magnum44]

[RoosterRedux]

Aside from the scary aspect of it (and if I understand it correctly), this process could become a general-purpose internal repair system.

In the brain, machine-cell hybrids could target neuroinflammation, Alzheimer’s plaques, MS lesions, stroke damage, tumors, and even chronic pain pathways. And because the devices hitch a ride on immune cells, the same technology could be used throughout the entire body—dissolving fibrotic tissue, breaking up arterial plaque, attacking tumors from the inside, repairing spinal injuries, clearing infections, and even remodeling scar tissue. Once you can merge electronics with living immune cells, you’ve created a programmable repair swarm that can reach almost any damaged or diseased tissue in the human body.

In fact (still thinking out loud), a full AI-driven digital twin (conceptually similar to what Palantir is using to examine companies) of the human body would accelerate this technology dramatically. Scientists could start human experiments on the digital twin long before regulatory approval for actual human tests is obtained.

You could simulate immune reactions, brain stimulation, long-term tissue effects, and even device failures before ever touching a human patient. Regulators would get safety data early, researchers could run millions of virtual experiments instantly, and the entire path from concept to clinical use would shrink from decades to years.

With MIT’s machine-cell hybrids, a digital twin becomes the perfect partner—AI models the biology, and the SWEDs interface with it. This combination could revolutionize medicine and eliminate many of the risks normally faced in early human trials.

[RoosterRedux]

Here is the peer-reviewed research article on which the above news article is based (there's a link in the article). For the most part, it's over my head. But still a good read for folks who don't mind diving down complex rabbit holes:

"A nonsurgical brain implant enabled through a cell–electronics hybrid for focal neuromodulation" — Nature Biotechnology (journal)

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well that doesn’t sound alarming or anything. 🤔

[william clark]

Paging Michael Crichton…

[John Milner]

So if I get an Android chip implanted, does that mean if I switch to an IPhone I relapse?

Let me guess, they’re all Google. If so, no thanks.

[BipolarBob]

Where do I sign up? I may want two of the for each half of my brain.

[aquila48]

Deblina Sarkar - the lead investigator in this research

"Deblina Sarkar is an Indian electrical engineer,[1] and inventor, born in Kolkata,West Bengal.[2][3] She is an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the AT&T Career Development Chair Professor of the MIT Media Lab. Sarkar has been internationally recognized for her invention of an ultra thin quantum mechanical transistor that can be scaled to nano-sizes and used in nanoelectronic biosensors. As the principal investigator of the Nano Cybernetic Biotrek Lab[4] at MIT, Sarkar leads a multidisciplinary team of researchers towards bridging the gap between nanotechnology and synthetic biology to build new nano-devices and life-machine interfacing technologies with which to probe and enhance biological function.

[aquila48]

Fire
Bronze
The plow
The wheel
The horse carriage
The hut
Iron
The sword
The bow and arrow
Ships
Guns
Automobiles
....

This won’t end well!

[daniel1212]

Here is the peer-reviewed research article on which the above news article is based (there's a link in the article). For the most part, it's over my head. But still a good read for folks who don't mind diving down complex rabbit holes:

"A nonsurgical brain implant enabled through a cell–electronics hybrid for focal neuromodulation" — Nature Biotechnology (journal)

Thx for the research for neuromodulation. Over my head also, but would a "sacred implant" (https://tubitv.com/movies/712851/six-the-mark-unleashed; not that I hold to pretrib rapture or all such movies imagine) enable what the great leader chooses?

[daniel1212]

Aside from the scary aspect of it (and if I understand it correctly), this process could become a general-purpose internal repair system. In the brain, machine-cell hybrids could target neuroinflammation, Alzheimer’s plaques, MS lesions, stroke damage, tumors, and even chronic pain pathways. And because the devices hitch a ride on immune cells, the same technology could be used throughout the entire body—dissolving fibrotic tissue, breaking up arterial plaque, attacking tumors from the inside, repairing spinal injuries, clearing infections, and even remodeling scar tissue. Once you can merge electronics with living immune cells, you’ve created a programmable repair swarm that can reach almost any damaged or diseased tissue in the human body.

Certainly such tech can open up a whole realm of benefits, but the issue is that certain governments would seek to do far more to control persons. North Korea, China, esp. Programmable political swarm.

[daniel1212]

Yes, fascinating. But being able to control devices just by your mind is akin to Scifi (”the Krells”) what the military for one, would be interested in.