Hi, we are Anush Mutyala & Mikael Haji! — Imagine a world where mental diseases of the brain could be triaged and diagnosed effectively in minutes. What if we could upload our memories as a collection of videos and images to the cloud? What would happen if we increased our brain bandwidth and enabled our species to learn anything…

Functional Ultrasound Imaging is poised to transform the realm of Brain-Computer Interfaces, setting new benchmarks with its unparalleled spatial and temporal resolution, extraordinary sensitivity, and compact form factor. As a Brain-Computer Interface researcher on a mission to build the tools necessary to read and write to our neural code, one…

Discovering the Complex Mechanisms Behind the Correlation Between Neural Activation and Blood Flow in the Brain — whats covered in this issue Assess the current knowledge of the NVU → specifically focused on one of its prototypical functions: the coupling between neural activity and CBF Review observations related to the contribution of different NVU cells to neurovascular coupling An attempt to provide a comprehensive picture of how activation of restricted groups of…

26,000 physicians across the United States fuel the country’s opioid crisis — Author: Zayn Patel, Mikael Haji, Anush Mutyala Project Memo: Physicians: The Modern Day Drug Dealers 26,000 physicians across the United States fuel the country’s opioid crisiszaynpatel.medium.com Summary of Project Memo: The opioid crisis in the US is projected to cause 700,000 deaths by 2025, largely due to the overprescribing of painkillers. One of the reasons for this is the subjective nature of current pain assessments, which rely on patients to rate their pain…

Solving Antimicrobial Resistance by Initiating an Immune Response Against Pathogenic Bacteria There’s an old saying about death by a thousand papercuts. But what if it just took one papercut to kill someone? That’s silly, right? I mean, even if a papercut DID get infected, we’ve got antibiotics to clean us…

The Wonderful World of Brain-Computer Interface — It seems so crazy that The Matrix came out two decades ago. The impact of this spectacular movie cannot be understated. Many would argue that it was and still is one of the best Science Fiction Films of all time. It was a film EVERYONE talked about For those of…

Summary & Editorial Piece on National Geographic Issue, “Why We’ll Succeed in Saving the Planet from Climate Change” — As humans, it is rather common to conceptualize different ways in which the world may end. From a Nuclear War to an Asteroid Collison, many of these theories are plausible. However, above every theory, climate change is viewed as one of the most prevalent potential causes of the end of…

If I were to tell you one year ago that classes would be taught online, millions would be out of work, and social distancing would become the new global reality — would you believe me? The COVID-19 pandemic has spread at an alarming speed, infecting millions and bringing economic activity…

From the smallest single-celled organisms to the largest creatures on Earth — every living thing is defined by its genes. As a society, we have reached an era in which gene editing is the most efficient and effective way to engineer DNA by replacing, deleting and modifying a genome of…