Researchers at Johns Hopkins’ McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine today are releasing newly generated genetic data to help speed autism research. The Hopkins data, coordinated with a similar data release from the Autism Consortium, aims to help uncover the underlying hereditary factors and speed the understanding of autism by encouraging scientific collaboration.

(London,UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK has urged Britain's new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown to support autistoc children in the wake of an unpbublished study from Cambridge University's renowned Autism Research Centre.