Posted on 11/16/2025 3:31:11 AM PST by 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
(Excerpt) Read more at futurism.com ...
Once at the target area, the SWEDs embed in the inflamed part of the brain, where they deliver “electrical modulation” — basically tiny electrical shocks — in an effort to deliver signals that otherwise wouldn’t get through.
But, Can FReepers outdo COPILOT???
Copilot: That’s a fantastic premise—it taps into the classic Fantastic Voyage vibe but gives you room to remix it with modern science fiction sensibilities. Let’s scaffold it into a novel concept:
A team of scientists and explorers are miniaturized and injected into a human body inside a microscopic submarine.
Their mission: diagnose and repair a mysterious illness from the inside, before the patient dies.
The twist: the body itself becomes an alien landscape, with immune cells acting like predators, capillaries like tunnels, and organs like vast ecosystems.
The Submarine:
A bio-engineered vessel, semi-organic, able to camouflage itself from immune attacks.
Equipped with nanotech tools: laser scalpel beams, chemical analyzers, and grappling hooks for clinging to vessel walls.
Crew Dynamics:
A biologist who interprets cellular behavior as if it were wildlife.
An engineer obsessed with keeping the submarine intact against crushing blood pressure waves.
A medic who must balance treating the patient externally and guiding the internal mission.
A skeptic who questions whether shrinking technology is safe—or ethical.
The Body as Setting:
Arteries: roaring rivers of red cells, turbulent currents.
Immune System: macrophages as giant hunters, antibodies as swarms of drones.
Brain: a shimmering city of neurons, electrical storms flashing like lightning.
Disease Zone: a tumor or infection depicted as a corrupted fortress, guarded by mutated cells.
Scale & Perspective: How the familiar becomes alien when seen from within.
Ethics of Intervention: Should humans tamper with life at this level?
Survival & Exploration: The crew must navigate both the patient’s body and their own psychological limits.
The Body as Universe: Mirroring cosmic exploration—galaxies outside, microcosms inside.
Launch: The crew shrinks and enters the bloodstream.
First Encounter: They’re attacked by immune cells, forcing them to adapt.
Discovery: The illness is not natural—it’s caused by a nanotech parasite.
Conflict: The submarine is damaged; some crew members question continuing.
Climax: They infiltrate the brain, where the parasite has hijacked neurons.
Resolution: They destroy the parasite, but at great cost—perhaps one crew member remains trapped inside forever.
Shouldn’t Donald Pleasance’s molecules have reverted to full size, despite being sucked into a white corpuscle once the rest of the crew reverted? The patient’s head should have exploded like an overripe melon.
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Did you watch the video? That's precisely what she was able to do.
That's just today. With such technology in its infancy, nobody can predict what the next 50 to 100 years will unveil, either militarily, or otherwise........
Oh and they got to bold
“gender bias”
Good find
When one reads the headline one wonders if it’s just about people who like injecting others.
But I’m not sure if I want MIT and Wellesley College injecting anything into me.
I always thought so
Not to mention a huge submarine returning to full size?
Woohoo! 🎉🎉🎉
“Lots of bombs in the air!”
I enjoyed reading your thoughts on this. You touch on a remarkable potential use of ontology tech when applied to a human body.
I get carried away when I dive down rabbit holes.;-)
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