US autism research gets $50M funding boost – amid row over Tylenol
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- US NIH invests $50 million in Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI) to study genetic and environmental factors contributing to autism.
- 13 research groups funded under ADSI, focusing on pregnancy exposures, brain cells, and replicating results for robustness.
- Concerns raised over short project timelines (3 years instead of 5) and potential political interference.
- Researchers reassured that no funding was awarded to projects linking vaccines to autism, despite initial concerns.
- Projects include exposomics, combining genome and exposome data to study environmental factors in autism.
- Brain organoids from autistic and non-autistic children used to study effects of substances linked to autism.