Dogs could transform the future of autism drug development

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260625/Dogs-could-transform-the-future-of-autism-drug-development.aspx?utm_source=azonetwork_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=drug_discovery_newsletter_9_july_2026 For thirty years the search for autism medicines has hit the same wall, and a new peer-reviewed Perspective in Genomic Psychiatry suggests that the way around it has been sleeping at our feet the entire time. The article is a synthesis rather than a fresh experiment. It gathers a decade of scattered findings and makes a quiet, provocative case. The laboratory Beagle, that gentle and biddable companion, may be the missing bridge between the petri dish and the clinic.