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The NIH’s $50 million autism bet

Last week, the National Institutes of Health announced the 13 teams of researchers who will receive money to study autism. The projects are diverse in scope, but the trendline is impossible to ignore: the federal government is doubling down on environment exposures as the way to understand why some people have autism.

There is growing recognition in the scientific community that environmental factors during pregnancy can influence whether a child is diagnosed with autism, even though the condition is seen to be

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