The Transmitter asked 17 neuroscientists what questions might remain unanswered if support for nonhuman primate research ...

The facilities were meant to last 100 years. Four decades shy of that mark, amid flatlined funds and mounting political ...

As the U.S. government takes steps to stop using nonhuman primates in research, The Transmitter investigates what that shift means for neuroscience.

Three preprints expand the list of high-confidence autism-linked genes and reveal how variants in these genes contribute to ...

There are many ways neuroscience could end. Prosaically, society may just lose interest. Of all the ways we can use our finite resources, studying the brain has only recently become one; it may one ...

The tool could help reveal how information transmission between areas relates to perception, cognition and behavior.

Maxim Raginsky draws on control theory, engineering and philosophy to explore biological and artificial intelligence and ...

Davi Bock’s lab took 21 million images for the fruit fly connectome. Now he wants to apply “this high-throughput flashlight” ...

Brady Huggett was features editor at The Transmitter, where he wrote and edited features and long-form projects, from 2022 to 2026. He is also the creator and host of the “ Synaptic ” podcast. Before ...

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 5 October.

A new functional MRI (fMRI) technique cuts down on scanning noise and motion-related artifacts, broadening the range of brain ...

To enhance AI safety, take a lesson from biological brains; a small set of wants maintains durable control over a much larger ...