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Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, said his agency has launched the Autism Data Science Initiative to “turbocharge” autism research following a White House announcement on the issue Monday.Bhattacharya said millions of dollars will be spent to collect the data. The NIH is an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that has — together with other research institutes — studied autism for decades.