Episode 23: Brain Computer Interface Improvements and Making Humans Mosquito Repellant

Happy Monday, everyone. This week, we learn about the improvements in the speech-related applications of brain-computer interfaces. An impressive decrease of over 100% for the response time needed has made these devices much more practically useful. After that, we learn how a completely unrelated drug for a rare metabolic disease can be used to make human blood poisonous to mosquitos. As always, thanks for listening, and stay curious!

Citations Follow:

Brain Computer Interfaces:

• Brain implant translates thoughts to speech in an instant
• A streaming brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis to restore naturalistic communication | Nature Neuroscience
• A high-performance neuroprosthesis for speech decoding and avatar control | Nature
• Brain-reading device is best yet at decoding ‘internal speech’
• Brain Waves to Voice: Revolutionary Technology Gives Speech to the Speechless
• Brain-to-Voice AI Streams Natural Speech for People with Paralysis - Neuroscience News
• Ai-powered system enables real-time speech generation for paralyzed individuals
• Harnessing Recent Online Data to Improve Brain-Computer Interface Operation
• Clinical Applications of Brain-Computer Interfaces: Current State and Future Prospects - PMC
• The future of brain–computer interfaces in medicine
• Harnessing Recent Online Data to Improve Brain-Computer Interface Operation
• Harnessing Recent Online Data to Improve Brain-Computer Interface Operation
• Brain–computer interface - Wikipedia
• Frontiers | The Use of Brain–Computer Interfaces in Games Is Not Ready for the General Public
• Researchers use BCIs to restore speech in people with paralysis
• Brain-to-Voice AI Streams Natural Speech for People with Paralysis - Neuroscience News
• Are Alexa And Siri Considered AI? | OpenGrowth | OpenGrowth

Internal Mosquito Repellant:

• Anopheles mosquito survival and pharmacokinetic modeling show the mosquitocidal activity of nitisinone | Science Translational Medicine
• Nitisinone - Wikipedia
• 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase - Wikipedia
• Tyrosinemia - Wikipedia
• Drug For Rare Disease Turns Human Blood Into Mosquito Poison : ScienceAlert
• Fighting the World's Deadliest Animal | Global Health | CDC
• 10 Mosquito Facts in Honor of World Mosquito Day | RTI
• Vector-borne Diseases - American Mosquito Control Association
• Vector-borne Diseases - American Mosquito Control Association
• Declining malaria, rising of dengue and Zika virus: insights for mosquito vector control - PubMed
• What Purposes Do Mosquitoes Serve in Ecosystems? | Britannica
• Drug For Rare Disease Turns Human Blood Into Mosquito Poison : ScienceAlert
• Malaria parasite life cycle | Malaria Vaccines
• Nitisinone Side Effects: Common, Severe, Long Term
• Mosquito Killer: A New Approach to Control
• Plasmodium falciparum - Wikipedia
• Vector-borne diseases