Researchers are pushing the limits of brain imaging, looking at fetal brains for the earliest signs of autism.

Studies of infants at risk for autism have not yielded a test to predict who will eventually be diagnosed. But they have transformed our understanding of the condition.

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

Music therapy proves ineffective for autism, brain structures differ with 16p11.2 duplications and deletions, and mice missing NLGN3 may influence the sociability of their littermates.

People with autism aren’t easily surprised, the social camouflage some girls and women with autism use may preclude diagnosis, and autism-related genes are rooted deep in human ancestry.

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

Small differences in brain imaging methods can have large effects on results.

Babies with a family history of autism have heart rates that are unusually low and that respond aberrantly to speech sounds.

Paternal age drives ‘geek index’ scores, GWAS may have a big weakness, serotonin boosts mouse social behaviors, and what is science Tinder?

The evidence linking autism and maternal infections grows, special neuron recipes are in development, a CRISPR pioneer envisions unicorns, and 23andMe delivers empathy data.