Autism isn’t a single condition, but rather describes a spectrum of behaviours and characteristics related to how a person senses and interacts with their environment. Scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston, Massachusetts, turned their focus to a set of genes known to be linked with autism, and discovered how it affected specific pathways in the brain – and also how to turn its affect off in mice.
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