Spectrum: Autism Research News

A $13 million grant from the National Institutes of Health aims to help to make stem cell models of autism, and the ‘unaffected sibling’ of a girl with autism pledges to advance the field.

Thomas Insel is stepping down as director of the National Institute of Mental Health after 13 years, and a policy aimed at curbing conflicts of interest is having little impact.

The debate over whether to screen all toddlers for autism rages on, and a team of ethicists thinks editing the genomes of human embryos is okay.

Two-thirds of psychology studies can’t be replicated, and the world loses the great Oliver Sacks.

Springer pulled 64 studies over faked peer reviews, and positive clinical trial results are hard to find.

A 3D printer makes brains out of bio-ink, and researchers debate the number of types of neurons.

Ethicists need to “get out of the way” of CRISPR, and researchers rally around routine screening for autism.

Graduate students could solve science’s replication problem, and media attention is a blessing and a curse.

Editing the genome has never been easier, and theories about the brain are inextricably tied to technology.

The ‘love hormone’ oxytocin needs a scientific makeover, and left-handed kangaroos don’t have autism.