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Scientists Are Growing “Mini-Brains” to Study Autism.
Harvard and Yale researchers are using brain organoids, genetics and AI to study how autism emerges during early brain development. For autistic women whose traits went unrecognized for years, the bigger question is intriguing: what might we learn when autism research looks beneath observable behavior?