The Daily Clog » Save Our Babies http://clog.dailycal.org A Cal blog brought to you by The Daily Californian Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:53:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Autism May Be Caused by Dust or Household Chemicals http://clog.dailycal.org/2008/11/23/autism-may-be-caused-by-dust-or-household-chemicals/ http://clog.dailycal.org/2008/11/23/autism-may-be-caused-by-dust-or-household-chemicals/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:16:35 +0000 April Isabel Angeles http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=5531 UC Berkeley professor Patricia Buffler is looking for potential culprits for autism, a disease which affects 1 in every 150 children in the United States. Her research, however, is not geared towards genetics or the baby’s development in the mommy’s pregnant belly–for Buffler, it’s what’s on the outside that counts.

Buffler is checking out dust in air samples and keeping an inventory of household chemicals in search of a correlation between these and autism. Unfortunately for Californians, we seem to be setting up camp in one of their leading suspects.

Does this mean autism may be caused by airborne somethings or invading DNA mutators? It sounds like a microscopic alien horror movie. Creepy!

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Researchers try to solve mystery of autism [InsideBayArea]

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