Autism and intelligence share genetic variants, researchers grow Neanderthal mini-brains and see overlap with autism, and maternal diabetes is an autism risk factor.

Spheres of brain cells derived from people and implanted into mouse brains recruit blood vessels and integrate with mouse neurons.

Scientists campaign for elected office in record numbers, folate autoantibodies are common in autism families, and neurons form a genetic mosaic in the brain.

Neurons derived from people with mutations linked to autism display diverse abnormalities that may help explain the origins of these individuals’ features.

A novel method allows researchers to rapidly generate stem-cell colonies with mutations linked to autism or other conditions.

Spheres of brain cells derived from a fetal skull have gene expression patterns similar to those in brain tissue from the same fetus.

Neurons derived from people with a syndromic form of autism look and behave differently than do those from people with classic autism.

A simple method for growing spheres of brain cells yields more realistic replicas of the brain than traditional techniques do.

In children with autism, star-shaped brain cells may release inflammatory molecules that harm neurons.