2158 results found for “science and society”
![Research image showing connectivity in brain regions in female mice with and without a UBE3A variant.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/autism-sexbias-1200-1024x692.webp)
CNTNAP2 variants; trait trajectories; sensory reactivity
By
Jill Adams
23 July 2024 | 2 min read
![Illustration of an open journal featuring lines of text and small illustrations of eyes and mouths.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1200-spotted-transmitter-neuroscience-1024x683.webp)
Bumetanide; sex-biased gene expression; racial and ethnic disparities
By
Jill Adams
16 July 2024 | 1 min read
![Illustration of an adult holding two pieces of paper with different shapes on them in front of a child.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Posture-Interventions-1200-1024x692.webp)
Autism interventions tailored for Black Americans; gene therapy for Rett syndrome; KATNAL2 gene
By
Jill Adams
9 July 2024 | 2 min read
![Neuroscientist Nacho Sanguinetti deadpanning the camera as he sits at his desk with a photo cutout of an agouti on his computer.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Sanguinetti-computer-1200-1024x692.webp)
Improvising to study brains in the wild: Q&A with Nacho Sanguinetti-Scheck
By
Rebecca Horne
9 July 2024 | 7 min read
![Image of a crumpled dollar bill on a light pink background. The bill's edges suggest a line graph trending downward.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Funding-1200-1024x692.webp)
Future of BRAIN Initiative funding remains unclear
By
Angie Voyles Askham
3 July 2024 | 4 min listen
![Research image showing the number of unique SHANK3 transcripts in mice.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Fig6A-Transcriptome-1200-1024x692.webp)
FOXP1 gene; dose effect of neurodevelopmental conditions; transcriptomics in mouse model of autism
By
Jill Adams
2 July 2024 | 1 min read
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Brain organoids overgrowth; DSCAM gene; sleep issues in autism
By
Jill Adams
25 June 2024 | 2 min read
![Research image of white-matter density in brains of people with deletions or duplications in the 16p11.2 chromosomal region.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/brain-vertical-1200-1024x692.webp)
Double-empathy problem; dup15q syndrome; myelin loss in aging autistic adults
By
Jill Adams
18 June 2024 | 2 min read
![Research image of cerebral organoids.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1200-spotted-20240611-1024x683.webp)
RNU4-2 gene; autism screening in Kenya; Rett syndrome gene therapy
By
Jill Adams
11 June 2024 | 2 min read
![A photograph of Paul-Antoine Libourel.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Lede-Libourel-1200-1024x692.webp)
At the end of the earth with Paul-Antoine Libourel
By
Yves Sciama
11 June 2024 | 18 min listen