Women who come down with influenza while pregnant are no more likely than those without the infection to have a child with autism.

Immune molecules could be targets for autism treatments, the battle for CRISPR’s patent may be nearing an end, and a plan to give postdoctoral researchers overtime pay is scuttled.

Women who are overweight or obese when pregnant increase their risk of having a child who is later diagnosed with autism by about 30 percent.

The interplay between a mouse’s immune system and certain mutations in her pups may increase autism-like features in the pups.

Infections during pregnancy increase levels of an immune molecule in the placenta that alters brain development and behavior in mice.

Infecting pregnant rats with group B streptococcus triggers inflammation in the fetal side of the placenta, but only in male fetuses.

Children born to parents who are 35 or older are at an increased risk of autism; for schizophrenia, the increased risk is limited to those born to mothers in their teens or early 20s.

High levels of chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls in a pregnant woman’s blood may raise the risk of autism in her child.

Only a small fraction of women who battle infections during pregnancy have children with autism, suggesting that some infections are riskier than others.

Rare antibodies associated with autism are unusually common among women who developed diabetes while pregnant with a child who has autism.