Autism researchers’ top priority should be shifting their focus to finding treatments for severe forms of the condition.

A new technique for building a ‘brain in a dish’ reveals how neurons move to their proper places during fetal development.

People with autism are at high risk of death from injury, China starts a clinical trial involving human embryonic stem cells, and individuals with autism have trouble seeing faces in food.

A trial of umbilical cord blood as a treatment for autism has passed a critical safety test, but many researchers remain skeptical of the approach.

A new type of molecular map reveals the 3-D architecture of the genome in individual cells.

A new method for examining blobs of neurons known as ‘mini-brains’ reveals structures like those in the human brain.

‘Mini-brains’ created in a dish may reveal autism’s roots and point to treatments, but they do not yet mirror some critical features of a human brain.

A clue to the origins of autism may exist among the molecules that transport RNA in the developing brain.

A new method allows researchers to transform stem cells into miniature intestines with a working nervous system.

A new stem cell model of Angelman syndrome delivers evidence for three molecular mechanisms underlying the condition — and one potential treatment.