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A new method offers an efficient way to examine gene expression in individual cells from postmortem brains.

A new tool can track fish, flies or mice as they navigate a virtual environment and interact with other animal ‘avatars.’

A new technique allows researchers to generate brain cells called astrocytes and maintain them in culture as they mature.

A new technique classifies neurons by surveying chemical tags that turn genes on or off on the neurons’ DNA.

A new database contains high-fidelity brain maps of 10 typical adults.

New software charts the crests of the folds that define the brain’s surface in people with autism.

Scientists this week announced the release of nearly 7,000 whole-genome sequences from a collection of families that each have one child with autism.

Microscopic balls of brain and blood vessel cells mimic the barrier that protects the brain from foreign invaders.

A new technique illustrates how mutations associated with autism affect gene expression at different stages of development in the fly brain.

New software transforms mouse brain scans into a virtual brain that scientists can manipulate.