There are over 70 genes that have been associated with autism spectrum disorder, but some of them are only the cause of ASD in a handful of patients. While each those genes can provide some insight ...

Hyperactivity, repetitive behavior, and language deficits all appeared in the mice, highlighting an unexpected role the cerebellum seems to play in autism. More than 70 genes have been linked to ...

Researchers at the Texas A&M University School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) have developed a new virtual tool that will allow scientists to study the function of genes more ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute studying male mice engineered with different Y chromosome deletions have uncovered which genes on the mouse Y chromosome regulate the development of sperm ...

Progranulin is an obvious target for a frontotemporal dementia therapy, as up to 15 percent of cases arise from loss-of-function mutations in its gene, GRN. In a study published January 7 in Science ...

Aconsortium of 17 laboratories worldwide has presented results contradicting a highly cited study that described a technique to create conditional knockout mice using CRISPR. The preprint, published ...