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Edging out at least five other teams, a Japanese group last week became the first to publish findings on mice lacking CHD8, the leading candidate gene for autism risk1. Their mice show some autism-like features: They are anxious and do not seem to recognize...

By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) – Scientists have moved a step closer to the goal of creating stem cells perfectly matched to a patient’s DNA in order to treat diseases, they announced on Thursday, creating patient-specific cell lines...

What if you could get rid of the mosquitoes that carry Zika virus? All of them. An entire species. Would it be right to do? What if the gene-editing process known as “gene drives” could modify a species of mice on an island so that only male offspring...

Babies with low birth weight who have a particular brain abnormality (as detected by an ultrasound scan in the first week after birth) are seven times more likely than those without the abnormality to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder later...

Just because a substance is illegal does not mean it is bad. In fact, many legal substances are responsible for a variety of ailments, prescription drugs alone are responsible for killing over 100,000 people each year. Cannabis was considered a harmful...