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Mapping Tool Reveals Microglia’s Shape-Shifting Secrets
Mapping Tool Reveals Microglia’s Shape-Shifting Secrets
The approach could help test hypotheses about how atypical function of the brain’s immune cells contributes to autism.
The approach could help test hypotheses about how atypical function of the brain’s immune cells contributes to autism.
autism spectrum disorder, neuroscience, cell & molecular biology
Inadequate Myelination of Neurons Tied to Autism: Study
Lisa Winter | Feb 4, 2020 | 2 min read
A mouse model of autism and postmortem brains of autistic individuals showed a lack of mature oligodendrocytes and less myelination than controls.
Sergiu Pasca Builds Brains to Study Developmental Disease
Emily Makowski | Dec 1, 2019 | 3 min read
The Stanford University professor helped develop a technique to grow brain organoids from induced pluripotent stem cells.
Neural Cell Types Tied to Autism Identified in Single-Cell Study
Ruth Williams | May 16, 2019 | 3 min read
An RNA analysis of human brain cells reveals gene expression changes in cortical neurons and microglia linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD).