Healthy Diet for Autism
[♪ INTRO] Scientists know that autism has a genetic basis. Studies have found that genetic factors may explain anywhere from 56 to 95 percent of autism’s features. But so far, it’s been really hard to identify exactly what those factors are. A new study in Nature Genetics suggests that may be because researchers have been…
[♩INTRO] The DNA double helix is one of the more iconic images in all of science. Slapping a twisty piece of DNA on something is guaranteed to make it look more… science-y. But there’s a reason it looks like that. It turns out our cells have a finely tuned sense of aesthetics. The DNA inside…
[intro] Scientists have been studying autism spectrum disorder for the better part of a century, and yet, there’s one thing they can’t seem to figure out: why the brains of people with autism develop differently. But because it’s more common in boys, some researchers have long suspected that testosterone levels in the womb are the…