New research reveals how prenatal inflammation and placental damage contribute to autism-like traits, offering insights into ...

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Scientists have uncovered an unexpected connection between inflammation during pregnancy, placental damage, and autism-like ...

The Biomedical Research Collaboration Award will fund the project’s direct costs over two years, allowing the researchers to pursue an actionable treatment option.

Scientists have discovered overlooked DNA sequences that may help explain autism, revealing genetic changes missed by conventional testing.

Autism gene therapy trial JAG201 is enrolling children ages 2-9 with confirmed SHANK3 gene mutations at US medical centers -- the same macaque primate research infrastructure that enabled JAG201’s ...

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In a national study of U.S. births, an increase of 0.75 micrograms per cubic meter in wildfire smoke particles across ...

Wang, Bergan and Yi-Xian Qin, who is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at SBU, recently submitted a National Institutes of ...

A recent study found higher odds of an autism diagnosis among children exposed to wildfire smoke before birth. The strongest ...

Autistic and non-autistic adults can perform equally well on a perceptual task while their brains respond differently to mistakes, assess decision difficulty and use recent experiences to guide future ...

The data showed 26 percent of neurons in the prenatal cortex had copy number variants, but this decreased to about 6 percent after birth.