The Transmitter

thetransmitter.bsky.social

13 October 2026 05:00

In two 1926 articles, Edgar Douglas Adrian revealed that neurons communicate through trains of spikes. @carandinilab.net describes the remarkable discovery and how it shifted focus from the medium (the nerve) to the message (the neural code). #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/history-of-n...

allen institute

alleninstitute.org

09 October 2026 11:08

Scientists at Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology just built the largest cellular family tree ever for a mammal, tracing how a single egg divided into 1.28 million cells. bit.ly/4zqcRjh

Matthijs Dorst

mattneuro.dorst-lab.org

06 October 2026 06:12

Last year, Janos Fuzik and I organized a symposium on voltage imaging for the @fens.org regional meeting in Oslo. We then teamed up with our speakers to write a review on this. I am very happy to share that this review is now out in #EJN! #neuroscience 🧠 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Nobel Prize

nobelprize.org

05 October 2026 11:01

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁

eisch.bsky.social

03 October 2026 07:44

🧪 inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-re... this is satire….but daaaaaaamn is it laying down some truths: “We have replaced the danger of mouth-pipetting with the danger of a generation of scientists spending their most productive years writing grants that will not be funded”