Elissa Welle

New York

Neuroscience Journalist at Spectrum

Neuroscience Reporter at The Transmitter

neuroscience 🧠 reporter for @_TheTransmitter | bylines in @reuters @nature @chronicle @statnews @freep | ex-neural engineer | tips? [email protected]

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Articles

A 'Trans Tennis Princess' Defeated Her Opponent. Then She Was Kicked Out of the Tennis League

3 weeks ago | hellgatenyc.com | Elissa Welle

10:04 AM EDT on April 01, 2025 It was the first match of the Brooklyn Tennis League's two-month season last Tuesday, and Cammie Woodman handily won against her opponent, 6-2, 6-love. The two players were cordial before and after the match, shaking hands before parting ways.
How Does Google's New Pixel Watch Detect Cardiac Arrest?

1 month ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Elissa Welle

Later this month, Google is expected to roll out software on its Pixel Watch 3 in the United States that has the potential to correctly identify two-thirds of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in people wearing the smartwatch. The feature uses AI to detect when the wearer no longer has a pulse, and it’s meant to combat the quiet killer of cardiac events that occur at home when people are alone and unable to call for help.
Statewide Memo Tells Court Officers to Let ICE Make Arrests in Courthouses

1 month ago | hellgatenyc.com | Elissa Welle

Court officers across New York's courthouses are now instructed to step aside if federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials or other outside law enforcement agencies attempt to make arrests without a judicial warrant within state courts. This change in procedure was included in a memo sent to state court staff on February 6 by Chief Administrative Judge Joseph Zayas, who oversees the thousands of non-judicial staff in New York's courts, including court law enforcement officers.
Can Floating Solar Power Boost Renewable Energy Capacity Without Harming Ponds and Lakes?

1 month ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Elissa Welle

The use of floating solar panels on freshwater bodies is an increasingly popular way of generating renewable energy. Such systems convert the sun’s rays into electricity while minimizing water evaporation. What’s more, they spare land that could be better used for agriculture or housing.
Biohybrid BCI Adds More Neurons to the Brain

2 months ago | msn.com | Elissa Welle

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Science Corp's Biohybrid BCI Adds Neurons to the Brain

2 months ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Elissa Welle

Brain-computer interfaces have enabled people with paralysis to move a computer cursor with their mind and reanimate their muscles with their thoughts. But the performance of the technology—how easily and accurately a BCI user’s thoughts move a cursor, for example—is limited by the number of channels communicating with the brain.
Direct Rubidium Extraction Eases Difficulty of Mining

2 months ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Elissa Welle

Lithium has been the apple of the mining industry’s eye as demand for electric vehicle batteries has skyrocketed. Now, the investment in lithium extraction is spilling over to include rubidium, another element on the leftmost column of the periodic table.
‘Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s,’ an excerpt

2 months ago | thetransmitter.org | Charles Piller |Calli McMurray |Elissa Welle |Angie Voyles Askham

Investigative journalistScience Share this article: Tags: Science and society, academic, Alzheimer’s disease, Community, Ethics, Publishing Flat-bottom smiles To no surprise, Matthew Schrag spent the day before our first meeting in the lab.
Electrical fingerprints track single neurons over several months

Oct 31, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Claudia Lopez Lloreda |Elissa Welle |Daisy Yuhas |Angie Voyles Askham

Enny van Beest wanted to watch how the representation of spatial information in a single neuron changes in different environments and conditions across the span of two weeks. So, as a test run, she recorded 10 days of neural data from Neuropixels probes implanted in a mouse. She set a computer to crunch the data and waited an entire weekend for the analysis to process. Then, her computer crashed. Over and over again she tried analyzing the data, and every time, her computer crashed.
Early trajectory of Alzheimer’s tracked in single-cell brain atlases

Oct 23, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham |Elissa Welle |Jill Adams |Rachel Buckley

The cognitive decline that prompts a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease is like the smoke that signals a raging fire: by the time it is apparent, the damage has already begun. That damage includes the accumulation of beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles that kill off excitatory neurons in the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex and, eventually, other parts of the brain. But how this cascade kicks off—and how to halt its progression—remains a mystery.