Brady Huggett

Features editor
The Transmitter

Brady Huggett is features editor at The Transmitter, where he writes and edits features and long-form projects. He is also the creator and host of the “Synaptic” podcast. Before joining The Transmitter in 2022, he served as business editor at Nature Biotechnology, and prior to that was the managing editor of BioWorld.

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When autistic kids grow up

When autistic kids grow up, Chapter 3: Would there be data?

By Brady Huggett

18 June 2026 | 27 min listen

When autistic kids grow up

When autistic kids grow up, Chapter 2: “You need to go to college”

By Brady Huggett

11 June 2026 | 28 min listen

When autistic kids grow up

When autistic kids grow up, Chapter 1: Those people

By Brady Huggett

4 June 2026 | 24 min listen

When autistic kids grow up

By Brady Huggett

20 May 2026 | 2 min listen

Raphael Yuste leaning on a bench in his lab. A red filter colors the scene.

Neural networks

Releasing the Hydra with Rafael Yuste

By Brady Huggett, Shaena Montanari

4 April 2025 | 10 min read

Education

M.A. in creative writing, The New School
M.A. in journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.S. in biology from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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