Spectrum: Autism Research News

President Donald Trump’s proposed cut for the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s 2018 budget could stall advances in science for generations.

Mutations in a gene called TRIP12 — which is involved in tagging proteins for destruction — can lead to intellectual disability, language delay and autism.

Most children with a rare autism-linked mutation develop baby teeth one to two years earlier than usual.

Manipulating pathways that help silence the X chromosome may help treat Rett syndrome, a condition closely related to autism.

A drug used to treat excessive swelling seems to ease autism features in some children on the spectrum.

Removing the Rett syndrome gene, MeCP2, from distinct cells and brain regions reveals hidden features of the condition.

Some neurons preferentially express the copy of a gene inherited from one parent over the other.

Many researchers oppose unfettered deregulation of the drug approval process, but welcome more relaxed rules for clinical trials.

The brains of some women with autism more closely resemble those of typical men than those of typical women.

Researchers have engineered two new rats with mutations in a family of genes that function at neuronal junctions, they reported today at the 2014 International Meeting for Autism Research in Atlanta.