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Dr. Tammy Benzinger of WashU Medicine says it's unclear whether that will continue amid cuts in research by the Trump administration.
In 2025, the NIH rejected a grant application that would have brought about $13 million in the first year.
Instead, the network got about $8 million and no money for international sites, which account for about half of its families.
The current funding is scheduled to run out on June 30th.
For much of the world, normal is gone.
It's called the Independent Autism Coordinating Committee.
It was formed just weeks after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
replaced every member of a similar committee that advises the federal government on autism research priorities.
The new group plans to offer alternative guidance.
It includes two former directors of the National Institute of Mental Health, leading academic scientists and doctors, a former congressman, and members of advocacy organizations.
Most of them have criticized Kennedy's efforts to link vaccines and autism, as well as his support for ideas about the condition that lack credible scientific backing.
The independent committee plans to hold its first public meeting on March 19 in Washington.
Researchers set out to shrink an AI model that acts like a part of the brain's visual system.
When they started, the model used 60 million variables.
But Ben Cowley of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory says the team was able to make a streamlined version that had just 10,000 variables.
And that is incredibly small.
This is something we could send in a tweet or an email.
Cowley says the key was finding redundant or unnecessary elements and applying statistical techniques like those used to compress digital photos.