How Proteins Interact May Hold Key to Future Autism Treatments
A new collaborative approach has begun revealing, in detail, how a set of around 100 autism spectrum disorder genes may lead to serious developmental problems. The technique involves looking beyond genes and their mutations, to the proteins they code for.
![Microscope image of a brain organoid derived from human stem cells that contain a mutation associated with autism spectrum disorder.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_card__image/public/2023-12/organoid.jpg)