{"id":227741,"date":"2025-12-24T01:27:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/scientists-grow-mini-brains-to-uncover-cells-behind-autism-related-brain-overgrowth"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:27:50","slug":"scientists-grow-mini-brains-to-uncover-cells-behind-autism-related-brain-overgrowth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/scientists-grow-mini-brains-to-uncover-cells-behind-autism-related-brain-overgrowth","title":{"rendered":"Scientists grow mini brains to uncover cells behind autism-related brain overgrowth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-grow-mini-brains-to-uncover-cells-behind-autism-related-brain-overgrowth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study in the lab of Jason Stein, Ph.D., modeled brain development in a dish to identify cells and genes that influence infant brain growth, a trait associated with autism.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have made great strides to understand early signs of autism.<\/p>\n<p>Studies have found that certain factors like genetics, sleep deprivation, excess fluid in the brain\u2014and brain size\u2014can increase the risk of neurodevelopmental conditions, like autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study in the lab of Jason Stein, Ph.D., modeled brain development in a dish to identify cells and genes that influence infant brain growth, a trait associated with autism. Researchers have made great strides to understand early signs of autism. Studies have found that certain factors like genetics, sleep deprivation, excess fluid in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}