Imagine watching your child reach all of their milestones, until they wake up one day, and it's all gone. That's the reality ...

How does autism develop? While genetics play a major role, researchers know that environmental factors during pregnancy also ...

Why do humans rely on XY chromosomes to determine sex, while birds use ZW—and many reptiles use neither, letting temperature decide instead? Sex determination is remarkably diverse across the animal ...

Psychologist and Catholic deacon Lawrence Sutton once worked with a seminarian, now a parish priest, who genuflected before the Blessed Sacrament but looked like a toy soldier when he did it. Not only ...

Rose covers disability and mental health, and she helps write STAT’s daily Morning Rounds newsletter. Confidential tips can be sent to Rose on Signal at rosebroderick.11. Vaccines took center stage at ...

For more than two decades, researchers have identified hundreds of genes that increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Yet multiple fundamental questions have remained unanswered: Among ...

President Donald Trump suggested controversial new childhood vaccine recommendations could help prevent autism, despite researchers finding no link between the condition and vaccines. Trump told a ...

It has long been observed that men with older brothers are more likely to be gay, but an association has also been found with ...

In the past few decades, researchers have identified hundreds of genes that increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder. Yet, two key questions remained unanswered: How do mutations in these genes ...

For a long time, so-called satellite DNA was considered largely worthless. Now, ETH Zurich researchers have shown in fruit flies that these repetitive sections of genetic material act as a kind of ...

Stacy Adair, an award-winning teacher from Colorado, is facing scrutiny after a complaint that accused her of spreading anti-transgender messaging by wearing an "XX ≠ XY" chromosome T-shirt to a ...

At Chain of Lakes Elementary School in Winter Haven, Florida, Josette Smith's 9-year-old son, Ethan, gets to do what he loves most: crafts, math, and science. That is, when he isn't being pulled out ...