{"id":239537,"date":"2026-06-24T11:06:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/autism-study-reveals-shared-brain-cell-changes-during-early-development"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:06:03","slug":"autism-study-reveals-shared-brain-cell-changes-during-early-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/autism-study-reveals-shared-brain-cell-changes-during-early-development","title":{"rendered":"Autism study reveals shared brain cell changes during early development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/autism-study-reveals-shared-brain-cell-changes-during-early-development.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of genes have been linked to autism, yet the precise molecular and cellular mechanisms behind it remain largely unclear. A new study published in <em>Nature<\/em>, led by Gaia Novarino at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), aims to uncover these mechanisms-and in doing so, might lay the groundwork for developing medical therapies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Autism spectrum conditions, often abbreviated as ASD in scientific and medical literature, are, for example, neurodevelopmental disorders such as epilepsy or intellectual disability. The underlying changes begin during early brain development, while the first signs often become apparent in early childhood and can persist throughout life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of genes have been linked to autism, yet the precise molecular and cellular mechanisms behind it remain largely unclear. A new study published in Nature, led by Gaia Novarino at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), aims to uncover these mechanisms-and in doing so, might lay the groundwork for developing medical therapies. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239537","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}