Scientists create world's first autistic mice in bid to unlock riddle of condition

Scientists have created autistic mice that could help unlock the riddle of the increasingly common condition.


Autism and related conditions such as Asperger’s syndrome affect more than one in 100 British children - ten times more than just 30 years ago.

But despite the rise, the condition is still little understood.

It is hoped that the mice – which like many autistic children are reserved and uncommunicative and repeat the same mannerism over and over again – will shed light on what goes wrong the brain.  More

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