Kenneth Harris

Aug 26, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Nicole Rust |Olivier Winter |Lauren Schenkman |Kenneth Harris

I first read Francis Crick’s “The Astonishing Hypothesis,” published in 1994, as a disenchanted undergraduate student. I knew that I wanted to change my major from chemical engineering, but I was unsure about what I wanted to switch to. In Crick’s book, I found the answer in spades.

Aug 14, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Olivia Gieger |Angie Voyles Askham |Jill Adams |Kenneth Harris

Ever since Gordon Fishell set out to understand inhibitory neurons 30 years ago, he says he has been propelled by one central question: How do these cells develop? In mice, the cells originate in a deep brain region called the subpallium but migrate during fetal development into the cortex, where they mature into different subtypes and form connections with excitatory pyramidal neurons.

Aug 13, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Sneha Khedkar |Rebecca Horne |Jill Adams |Kenneth Harris

About 10 years ago, when Michael Yartsev set up the NeuroBat Lab, he built a new windowless cave of sorts: a fully automated bat flight room. Equipped with cameras and other recording devices, the remote-controlled space has enabled his team to study the neuronal basis of navigation, acoustic and social behavior in Egyptian fruit bats without having any direct interaction with the animals.

Aug 13, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Jill Adams |Sarah DeWeerdt |Chloe Williams |Kenneth Harris

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 12 August. Contributing writer Share this article: Tags: Spectrum, Autism, Science and society, Spotted Ketamine alters gene transcription—particularly in signaling, immune function and RNA processing—in ADNP syndrome, molecular effects that may contribute to therapeutic outcomes. Spectrum has covered the therapeutic potential of ketamine in ADNP syndrome.

Aug 12, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Sneha Khedkar |Jill Adams |Kenneth Harris |Sydney Wyatt

Sneha Khedkar is a freelance science journalist based out of Bengaluru, India. She writes about health and life sciences. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Knowable Magazine, New Scientist and The Scientist, among other publications. She completed an M.Sc. in biochemistry at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, after which she was a research fellow studying stem cells in the skin. Her website is https://www.snehakhedkar.com/.