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 ...

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

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

Number of autism-linked genes more than triples in new analyses In addition to a new preprint that expands the list of genes tied to the condition, two related analyses reveal how variants in those ...

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

The assumption that waking life consists of a stream of conscious representations has inadvertently led consciousness science ...

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

Gene activity across 17 mouse models occurs in one of two molecular states, suggesting diverse genetic changes converge on a ...

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