Knvul Sheikh is a freelance science journalist based in New York. She writes about psychology, personalized medicine, genetics and culture. She served as web editor for Genome magazine, and her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, Popular Science, Scientific American and Vice, among others.
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Spotted around the web: Week of 20 May 2019
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Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 8 April.
New figures for autism prevalence in China point to previous neglect
About 1 in 100 children in China has autism, suggesting the condition is more common in the country than previously thought.
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