An international research team identified hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells, including one gene ...

Organoids are 3D cell culture models that more accurately reflect the structural and functional complexities of organs in vitro than traditional 2D cell culture methods. Generally derived from stem ...

New research identifies four presentations of autism based on genetics, behaviors and the ages when symptoms first appeared.

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), used CRISPR to engineer cellular models of embryos that mimic what happens in the first few days after reproductive cells meet. These ...

For decades, autism has been described as a spectrum - an elastic term that stretches from nonverbal children to adults with ...