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Mice with ‘mohawks’ help scientists link autism to two biological pathways in brain
May 25, 2014 by NewsBot
“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.