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A new method uses mutations in DNA to maintain a detailed record of series of cellular events.

A new study supports the view that songbirds offer a good model to study speech learning in autistic children.

A novel implant that delivers complex combinations of drugs and light to mouse brains may uncover the pathways that underlie repetitive behaviors in autistic people.

A 3D model of a human embryo reveals the biological processes that unfold in early development.

New findings call into question a fundamental assumption about how genes are regulated.

An online resource reveals all major cell types in the developing human brain during the period in which autism is thought to arise.

Sleeping zebrafish show two patterns of neuronal activity that are analogous to those in people.

Two new maps show the entire nervous system of the adult roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.

A new technique enables scientists to isolate, and chart gene expression in, tens of thousands of cells at once.

The brain areas involved in mice’s ultrasonic vocalizations may not be the same as those that govern human speech.