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.
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.
Michael Cole explains how "brain flows" are the fundamental units of brain function and cognition.
Michael Cole explains how "brain flows" are the fundamental units of brain function and cognition.