During the first visit to my friend’s house since the pandemic had started, the first thing I did was wash my hands. The first thing I noticed was the eye-catching shape of the water projecting from the faucet. While the sinks I had used for the past year emitted frothy, turbulent jets, the water in this sink fell over a flat edge and created a laminar cascade of water that appeared to take the shape of mutually orthogonal chain links.

My grandmother was my best friend. She laughed when I laughed; she cried when I cried. I wondered why she was suddenly forgetting things she had no problem remembering before. How could my grandma suddenly forget what country she was in? How could my grandma not even remember my name? … Alzheimer’s Disease is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases. An emerging field of science is genomic neurology, which explores the genetic basis for neurodegenerative diseases.