Growing up with a brother or sister on the spectrum motivates some young people to devote their careers to investigating autism.

Studying parents of children with autism has long been controversial, but that doesn’t mean scientists should avoid it.

A new test claims to assess a child’s risk of autism based on abnormal folds in the placenta, but there is little evidence to support its use.

A new book offers tips for parents of adults with autism, sexual harassment may be deterring women from science, and autism researchers coax babies to lie still in the scanner.

Infant girls at risk for autism pay more attention to social cues in faces than do boys at the same risk and low-risk infants.

Our top 10 papers for this year, based on input from autism researchers, capture the full spectrum of findings — from molecular biology to large-scale epidemiology.

Inviting families to participate in studies in the context of their clinical care may help mitigate the logistical challenges of long-term studies.

Nearly half of siblings of children with autism have difficulties with attention, language, learning or mood.

An analysis of prenatal screening test results fuels the theory that abnormal levels of steroid hormones in the womb wire the developing brain for autism.

The infamous ‘impact factor’ does not capture a study’s true influence, an ambitious baby study halts eight months in, and a ‘spectrum’ may not be the best model for autism.