Biomedical Science Department Researchers find a link between autism and a missing copy of the gene BMAL1

Reported by Spectrum News at the Neuroscience 2022 conference in San Diego, California, and published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 

Dr. Abhishek Mishra, a postdoctoral researcher in the Cao lab, Biomedical Sciences Department, Medical School, Duluth Campus, and Rubal Singla, currently a graduate student at the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and former visiting scholar in Dr. Ruifeng Cao’s lab, shared their findings about genes linked to autism at the Neuroscience 2022 conference in San Diego, California. Mice who lacked a copy of the BMAL1 gene, an important regulator of the circadian rhythm, exhibited autistic behaviors. Learn more about this impactful study from the Cao lab published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, June 2022.