Katherina Walz is research associate professor at the Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami in Florida.
 
        Katherina Walz
                        Associate professor                        
                        University of Miami                    
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What two rare ‘social’ syndromes reveal about autism
Studying Smith-Magenis and Potocki-Lupski syndromes — two single-gene conditions in which people have trouble reading social cues — may boost our understanding of autism.
 
            
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The Dutch Senate has ordered the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in the Netherlands to shift its funding away from primate experiments by 2030.
 
            
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The Dutch Senate has ordered the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in the Netherlands to shift its funding away from primate experiments by 2030.
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First-time sleuths found potentially problematic images in hundreds of papers about early brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Ramping up cortical activity in early life sparks autism-like behaviors in mice
The findings add fuel to the long-running debate over how an imbalance in excitatory and inhibitory signaling contributes to the autism.
 
            
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The findings add fuel to the long-running debate over how an imbalance in excitatory and inhibitory signaling contributes to the autism.