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Welcome to The Transmitter, a publication that offers neuroscience news and analysis written by journalists and scientists. Dive into some of our featured stories below.

WILD platform levels up ability to record brain activity, behavior in nature

By Simon Makin

The customizable rig combines multimodal recording, onboard processing and neuronal manipulation to power more complex experiments.

Neuroscience gave AI its start. What happens now?

By Emily Singer

David Sussillo maps the two fields' divergent paths, and where they might still meet.

U.S. national primate research centers face an uncertain future

By Calli McMurray

The facilities were meant to last 100 years. Four decades shy of that mark, amid flatlined funds and mounting political pressure, their directors are trying to find a path forward.

Beyond wiring diagrams: Inside a $19 million effort to expand access to connectome technology

By Calli McMurray

Davi Bock’s lab took the millions of images that led to the complete connectome of a fruit fly brain. Now he wants to apply “this high-throughput flashlight across all areas of biology.”

Susana Carmona on the neurobiology of pregnancy

By Francisco J. Rivera Rosario

In a Q&A about her new book, “A Mother’s Brain,” Carmona shares key moments in her career that led her to study the neuroscience of motherhood and discusses some of the major questions the field still needs to address.