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October 06, 2021 Missed check-ups, delayed autism diagnoses among low-income children
Autistic children from low-income families are diagnosed about eight months later than their wealthier peers, a new analysis of insurance claims in Virginia shows.
4 min
October 05, 2021 Cancer drug alters autism-like traits in mice
A drug that helps promote gene expression reduces repetitive behaviors and improves memory and sociability in a mouse model of autism.
6 min
October 04, 2021 Social Creatures - Episode 5
Differences in social behavior are central to autism, and the roots of those behaviors extend throughout the animal kingdom, says Anne Simon, a behavioral geneticist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.
7 min
October 01, 2021 Fishing expedition - Episode 4
Scientists have also studied the nighttime rituals of another autism model: zebrafish (Danio rerio). Gene-editing techniques enable scientists to create zebrafish with autism-linked mutations, and then they can easily assess how the mutations effect behavior.
7 min
September 29, 2021 Fly society - Episode 3
In 2012, geneticist Santhosh Girirajan boarded a plane in Seattle, where he had just finished a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington. On the plane, he cracked open a book he had received as a going-away present: “Time, Love, Memory,” the story of biologist Seymour Benzer’s Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about sleep and circadian rhythms in fruit flies.
5 min
September 28, 2021 No link between epidurals and autism, two studies confirm
Children born to people given an epidural during labor do not have an increased chance of having autism, according to two new studies.
6 min
September 28, 2021 The search for a link between autism and neurodegenerative conditions
Autistic people have a higher-than-average chance of developing a neurodegenerative condition, according to a few studies. Some scientists are searching for proof — work that could also improve care for older autistic adults.
11 min
September 27, 2021 A worm of one’s own - Episode 2
Rand began using roundworms to study nervous system development in the 1970s. In the mid-2000s, when some of the first studies of autism genetics were published, he remembered something his wife had brought up years before, around the time their two sons were diagnosed with autism.
7 min
September 27, 2021 Analysis ups estimate of spontaneous mutations' role in autism
Spontaneous genetic mutations contribute to autism in 30 to 39 percent of all people with the condition, and 52 to 67 percent of autistic children whose siblings do not also have the condition.
7 min
September 24, 2021 What studying worms, flies and fish says about autism - Episode 1
In a windowless room near the western edge of Vancouver, Canada, a team of researchers trains microscopes on dishes of tiny worms about the size of a comma in 12-point font.
5 min

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