Spectrum: Autism Research News

Microsoft urges applications from techies with autism, Yale’s Kevin Pelphrey moves south, and architects design autism-friendly spaces.

Studying large numbers of fraternal and identical twins may help tease apart genetic and environmental contributors to autism.

The brain’s sound-processing machinery may mature slowly in children with autism.

A new tool allows researchers to simultaneously study the physical, genetic and electrical properties of individual neurons.

Social interactions shape the bustling communities of gut bacteria in chimpanzees.

Infant girls at risk for autism pay more attention to social cues in faces than do boys at the same risk and low-risk infants.

People with an extra copy of the autism-linked chromosomal region 16p11.2 have a range of characteristics, suggesting that other genetic factors are at play.

Researchers are studying more than 1,000 postmortem brains with the goal of unearthing shared genetic roots in neuropsychiatric conditions, including autism.

Super-resolution microscopy can set off a series of biological processes that lead to cell death, compromising imaging experiments.

Researchers have uncovered 38 genes, including 9 autism candidates, that may fine-tune brain activity.