Spectrum: Autism Research News

The International Society for Autism Research faces a thorny problem: how to please a diverse mix of attendees who have radically different goals.

Researchers are edging closer to a therapy for Angelman syndrome — a condition related to autism — that involves injecting the gene-editing enzyme CRISPR into the fetal brain.

A child’s risk of autism is slightly elevated if a parent or sibling has asthma or an autoimmune disease.

A group of the world’s leading geneticists is calling for a moratorium on the editing of DNA in human embryos.

Motor problems in autistic infants may parallel those in infants with other developmental conditions.

Autism BrainNet, a repository of postmortem brains, has new tissue from more than 150 brains, including 59 from people with confirmed or possible autism.

The brain’s emotion center, the amygdala, undergoes dramatic changes during the first year of life; these shifts may hold hints about its role in autism.

A study of more than 5 million people reveals the onset and prevalence of nine diagnoses that often accompany autism.

Doctors can now order a blood test that its makers say may help flag autism, but experts say the test is not appropriate for use in clinics.

Some traits of autism are associated with obvious differences in brain structure, and the scope of these alterations may depend on the person’s sex.