Ralph Greenspan
Associate Director, Kavli Institute for Mind and Brain
University of California, San Diego
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Looking at autism through the fruit fly
The characteristics, interactions and roles of autism-associated genes in the fruit flies' brain will help guide how we think about the same genes in humans, says Ralph Greenspan.
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