Deblina Sarkar is building microscopic machines to enter our brains

Photo caption: Deblina Sarkar wants to develop miniature machines that may one day help treat Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other neurological afflictions. Photo credit: Jimmy Day, MIT Media Lab. Article by Nikk Ogasa. Science News – May 23, 2023.

Deblina Sarkar makes little machines, for which she has big dreams. The machines are so little, in fact, that they can humbly inhabit living cells. And her dreams are so big, they may one day save your mind. Sarkar is a nanotechnologist and assistant professor at MIT. She develops ultratiny electronic devices, some smaller than a mote of dust, that she hopes will one day enter the brain. […]

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