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MIT develops tiny devices to monitor and heal individual cells - restoring lost brain functions
MIT’s new tiny wearables wrap around neurons to monitor or heal, opening new treatments for brain diseases like multiple sclerosis.
"It is possible to very finely control the diameter of the rolling," explains Deblina Sarkar, senior author and head of MIT’s Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek Lab, who led this research. According to lead author Marta J. I. Airaghi Leccardi, the devices might eventually form circuits on a microscopic scale, capable of measuring or even modulating individual cells’ functions. The MIT team imagines them as tiny, minimally invasive tools that could one day modulate neurons’ electrical activity, possibly aiding in brain disease treatments.
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