Undisclosed financial conflicts and a lack of proper clearance mar a new study that injected four autistic children with stem cells from their own bone marrow, independent experts say.

Deleting a copy of the gene TBX1 depletes the fatty myelin insulation that surrounds neurons and reduces cognitive speed in mice.

Use of the term ‘profound autism’ is among the recommendations made by a panel of autism researchers, clinicians, autistic adults and parents of autistic people.

Genes that appear to play a role in some birds’ ability to learn songs are frequently mutated in autistic people.

This week’s Community Newsletter brings you conversations around new autism prevalence numbers in the United States and United Kingdom, and David Mandell’s departure as editor-in-chief of Autism.

Children who are diagnosed with autism before age 2 and a half years show more gains in their social skills than children who are diagnosed later.

In this edition of Null and Noteworthy, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee grapples with “groundbreaking” research and two reviews of interventions come to conflicting conclusions.

Autism prevalence in the United States rose to 1 in 44 children in 2018, up from 1 in 54 in 2016.

One family paid more than $7,000 for their child to participate in a small clinical trial in Panama. The trial’s lead author did not disclose that detail.

Almost 60 percent of autistic people may have an average or above-average intelligence quotient, according to a new longitudinal study.