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New findings suggest that autistic men, but not women, have enhanced neural excitability in their social brain regions, and this may impact their ability to navigate social situations.

A metric called the Hurst exponent could be a useful biomarker for studies exploring brain differences between men and women with autism spectrum disorder.

Excitation-inhibition imbalance affects medial prefrontal cortex differently in autistic males versus females.

Modulation of moment-to-moment irregularity of neural activity closely tracks our ability to flexibly adapt decision biases to the environment.

Bacterial small RNAs derived from the 3' untranslated region of an mRNA can serve as autoregulatory elements.

Neurons that promote hunger become desensitized to dietary fat in obesity.

An optical microscopy approach with an ultra-large field of view but retained subcellular resolution allows simultaneous imaging of neural activity in widely dispersed brain regions.

We share some of the highlights, outcomes and learnings from our first open leadership and mentorship programme.

As much as 40–80% of the person-to-person spread of the novel coronavirus occurs days before the infected individual develops symptoms, highlighting the importance of preventive measures among apparently healthy people.

Malaria pre-exposed volunteers exhibit large breadth of humoral immune responses, with strong variation between individuals, which might compromise vaccine-induced humoral immune response due to natural imprinting.

Metabolic health and longevity can be separated by ovariectomy, which also protects female mice lacking hepatic mTORC2 from midlife mortality.