Senior reporter
The Transmitter
Calli McMurray is senior reporter at The Transmitter, where she covers research integrity, brain-body physiology and unique animal models. She also reports on structural and regulatory issues that affect research.
Before joining The Transmitter in 2024, she interned at The Chronicle of Higher Education and freelanced for STAT, The Texas Observer, KFF Health News and elsewhere.
The European Animal Research Association's Patient Discovery Project connects researchers with people who have the conditions they study. The learning goes both ways.
The European Animal Research Association's Patient Discovery Project connects researchers with people who have the conditions they study. The learning goes both ways.
A more complex picture of how an animal’s brain tracks its location is starting to emerge.
A more complex picture of how an animal’s brain tracks its location is starting to emerge.
The animal has a brain structure all its own, according to a 2026 preprint. The finding hints that brains could have evolved centralization before regionalization.
The animal has a brain structure all its own, according to a 2026 preprint. The finding hints that brains could have evolved centralization before regionalization.