Spotted: Back to basics; measles mayhem
Grad students and postdocs prove why basic science matters, and an outbreak sends a sobering message.
Grad students and postdocs prove why basic science matters, and an outbreak sends a sobering message.
When it comes to research, scientists and the public are often at odds. It’s a long-standing problem, but the results of a survey released last week reveal that in particular areas, this opinion gap has grown.
A set of small molecules in the blood can distinguish people with autism from controls with 81 percent accuracy, claims a biotech firm, but the test faces a long and difficult road to clinical use.
The University of California has launched an ambitious 18-month project to connect autism researchers across its ten campuses.
An influx of $4.5 billion from the federal government over the next 12 years could jump-start a new generation of technologies, including tools for autism research.
In the U.S. and U.K., education is the largest cost associated with caring for children with autism.
A new policy that aims to eliminate gender bias in animal and cell-based biomedical research is outlined in the 15 May Nature.
States with the weakest infrastructure for diagnosing children with autism often lack laws requiring compensation for treatment costs, finds an analysis published 30 April in the journal Autism.
The U.S. has a severe shortage of active child and adolescent psychiatrists, but more scholarships and training opportunities may increase their ranks, says a report released 27 March.
Families and schools spend about $17,000 more per year on a child with autism than they do on a typically developing child, reports a study published in the March issue of Pediatrics.