Mayada Elsabbagh News Today

Pro-Palestinian student protesters at McGill University say they have started talks with school administrators about their demands that the university cut all ties with Israeli companies and academic institutions.

New, recently published, research findings support a genetic link between sleep, circadian rhythms and autism.

Compared with their unaffected siblings and unrelated controls, children with autism harbor more copy number variants in genes that govern the circadian cycle or are associated with insomnia.

Ground was broken Monday on a new $50-million autism education centre its proponents say will make Quebec a leader in autism education, research and services.