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Talking shop: The Transmitter’s top quotes of 2025

Find out what “may be one of the brain’s most underappreciated superpowers” and why it’s so crucial to “talk about our research in our everyday lives.”

By The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 4 min read
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Say what? The Transmitter’s top quotes of 2024

“We’ve cured mouse-heimer’s thousands of times...”—find out who said this to a Transmitter reporter, and read our other favorite quotes from the past year.

By The Transmitter
23 December 2024 | 2 min read

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Frameshift: Raphe Bernier followed his heart out of academia, then made his way back again

After a clinical research career, an interlude at Apple and four months in early retirement, Raphe Bernier found joy in teaching.

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The genetic variants initially affect brain development in unique ways, but over time they converge on common molecular pathways.

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Single gene sways caregiving circuits, behavior in male mice

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