Profiling the Brain’s Many Types of Cells

There are scores of studies measuring gene expression in the brain. The trouble is, most of them measure expression in pieces of brain tissue, which can include many different types of cells, each with a different biological role.Nathaniel Heintz, professor of molecular biology at Rockefeller University, has developed a technique that creates a genetic profile of specific cell types in the brain. I sat down to chat with Heintz about how his method can help autism researchers.Go see the video at...SFARI, November 2010.