Spotted around the web: Brain imaging replicability; CRISPR-edited neurons; sex-based variability in mice
Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 13 March.
From funding decisions to scientific fraud, a wide range of societal factors shape autism research.
Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 13 March.
In this edition of Null and Noteworthy, Spectrum talks with a Nature editor about the journal’s move to publish more null results.
The drug, welcomed by patients, might be just the first of many.
Three murine studies — two of cell types in the mouse brain plus a look at behavioral sex differences — dominated researchers’ attention on Twitter this week.
The new tool may pose challenges for the scientific community, but used wisely, it can help researchers save time and resources.
Autistic clinicians have long hid their diagnosis from colleagues, but some are beginning to share their stories to ignite change.
The two journals, although differing in initial support, both realized the need for a publication focused exclusively on the neurodiverse experience.
There are a variety of suicide interventions designed to improve social connection that could be adapted for autistic people, but first the field must work to dismantle the damaging and inaccurate notion that autistic people are uninterested in social interaction.
The research community was abuzz this week with chatter about Nature’s new policy on registered reports, a 3D genome atlas of the cerebellum, and a study that measured brain activity in freely moving octopuses.
Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 27 February.