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.