An interview for diagnosing adults on the spectrum clears its first hurdle, a fragile X drug eases multiple features of the syndrome in a mouse model, and a brain bank chronicles the beautiful diversity of neurons.

More than 5 percent of mutations thought to have arisen spontaneously in a child with autism may in fact be inherited.

People with autism who have rare, damaging mutations tend to have low scores on intelligence tests.

Children with autism may have an excess of spontaneous mutations in DNA that controls the expression of autism genes.

Men and women both transmit an increasing number of new mutations to their children as they age.

Mutations that appear in only some of the body’s cells contribute to autism in about 4 percent of people with the condition.

Watch the complete replay of this journal club, which featured two papers on mosaic mutations in autism.

A monkey study suggests facial recognition is not innate, a puzzle piece symbol carries negative connotations, and scientists are using a federal law to snoop on colleagues.

Masculinized features help define children with autism, online autism-parent forums spread pseudoscience, and the United States has more older fathers than ever.

Children with autism are genetically more similar to one another than to a group of unaffected siblings.