/newsroom/taxonomy/term/10663/all en /newsroom/channels/news/new-insight-how-autism-might-develop-human-brain-287849 <p>In a study published in <em>Stem Cell Reports</em>, a ºÚÁϲ»´̣́È University team of scientists led by Dr. Carl Ernst, researcher at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre, revealed a molecular mechanism that may play a role in the development of autism.</p> <p>By taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming those cells to become brain cells through genetic engineering, Dr. Ernst, graduate student Scott Bell, and Edward A. Fon and Thomas M. Durcan, colleagues at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, tracked how a brain cell with the patient’s own mutation develops improperly.</p> Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:41:18 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 49265 at /newsroom