Spectrum: Autism Research News

CRISPR-edited prairie voles that lack receptors for the so-called “social hormone” still bond with their mate and pups, raising questions about the molecule’s role.

‘Tis the season for grad school meet and greets. But what are interviewers looking for, and how can early-career researchers bring their best?

A new gene therapy approach for epilepsy tamps down neural activity on demand.

Rumbaugh, who studies how the autism-linked gene SYNGAP1 shapes brain development, describes how he has embraced coastal living and which aspects of his career he wouldn’t do over.

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 5 December.

The approach could help test hypotheses about how atypical function of the brain’s immune cells contributes to autism.

Early-career researchers talk about the challenges around taking time off, and a new study shows that young scientists tend to be more innovative than their older colleagues.

Faulty mTOR signaling, implicated in syndromic forms of autism, also hinders cells grown from people with idiopathic autism or autism-linked deletions on chromosome 16.

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 28 November.

Here is a roundup of news and research for the weeks of 14 and 21 November.