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The biological roots of autism continue to perplex researchers, despite a growing body of studies looking at an increasing array of genetic, cellular and microbial data.

The collection of microbes that inhabit the human gut has been shown to play a role in autism, but the mechanics of this link have remained awash in ambiguity. Taking a fresh computational approach to the problem, a study published today in Nature Neuroscience sheds new light on the relationship between the microbiome and autism.

In 1978, Simons left academia to pursue a career in finance. He founded Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund firm based in New York.

These five new big-time donations funding higher ed initiatives are COVID-era pronouncements of the death of traditional higher education were premature, at least when it comes to receiving donations from corporate and alumni donors.

The discovery of a new molecular mechanism could one day offer new therapies for androgenetic alopecia, a common form of hair loss.

Jordana CepelewiczIn the fall of 2017, Mehtaab Sawhney, then an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined a graduate reading g

Bloomington is expected to be in the path of totality for four minutes.

Stony Brook recently received a $500 million donation from the Simons Foundation.

More and better data are required to solve the mystery of strange apparitions in the air, the sea and space, according to NASA’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study team

The results lend support for clinical trials of arbaclofen in people with an autism-linked condition, the researchers say.