Mice with 'mohawks' help scientists link autism to two biological pathways in brain

Monday, May 26, 2014 - 19:31 in Biology & Nature

“Aha” moments are rare in medical research, scientists say. As rare, they add, as finding mice with Mohawk-like hairstyles. But both events happened in a lab, months after an international team of neuroscientists bred hundreds of mice with a suspect genetic mutation tied to autism spectrum disorders.

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