ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Texas Children’s Hospital. Texas Children’s Hospital is a major pediatric medical center and research institution with strengths in genetics, cancer, neuroscience, cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, immunology, and maternal and fetal health. Its scientists and clinicians conduct basic, translational, and clinical research aimed at understanding childhood disease, developing new therapies, and improving prevention, diagnosis, and care for children and families.
Six children with developmental delay or autism carry the same rare change in a signaling gene. Expressed in fruit flies, the human variant switched on cell signaling without its usual trigger and disrupted neural development.