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BLOOMINGTON – Organizations in rural communities with a population under 50,000 can now apply for micro-grants to support arts and cultural activities connected to the 2024 solar eclipse. The Indiana University Center for Rural Engagement will support rural community activities that fo ...

If your organization is passionate about community outreach efforts and looking forward to the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, the Terre Haute Childrens Museum has an opportunity for

Jellyfish make new neurons constantly throughout life. MIT professor Brady Weissbourd won a fellowship to explore how these tiny, transparent animals use this ability to build, organize, and rebuild a stable, functional and robust nervous system.

The possibility of a link between autism and the microbiome first emerged in the 1990s.

The variants are associated with slight differences in measures of intelligence, income and employment, but the relationship may not be causal.

In a big reassessment study, scientists have found a “definitive association” between gut bacteria and autism spectrum disorder.

Although we’ve learned a lot about autism over the past few decades, there’s still a great deal to discover. One of the more recent findings involves the human microbiome.

An antisense therapy developed by Joel D. Richter, PhD, Sneha Shah, PhD, and Jonathan K. Watts, PhD, at UMass Chan Medical School and Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD, at RUSH University Medical Center, restores production of the protein FMRP in cell samples taken from patients with fragile X syndrome.

Nonrandom mating — the propensity for people to partner with others who share their traits — can increase the likelihood of autism or other conditions across…