How does the brain give rise to mind? That's just one question scientists associated with SFARI have been debating on the PBS television program Charlie Rose.

Sharmila Banerjee-Basu, founder and president of Mindspec Inc., and Alan Packer, associate director for research at SFARI, have published an article describing a new SFARI Gene module in the community news section of the journal Disease Models & Mechanisms.

The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is pleased to announce that Cori Bargmann, Torsten N. Wiesel Professor at Rockefeller University, has joined its scientific advisory board.

The collection is moving closer to reach its initial goal of 2,000 families. The SSC released last month a new set of biospecimens and validated phenotypic data from over 200 additional families. Biospecimens and data updates are released on a quarterly schedule.

SFARI Gene offers researchers the ability to view and annotate autism-related genes in an online interactive database.

The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) has recruited more than 1,500 families into its simplex collection, moving closer to its initial goal of collecting DNA samples and phenotypic data from a total of 2,000 families.

SFARI Gene, a curated online reference tool for the autism research community, is launching a new mouse model feature that identifies the relevant literature on animal models carrying mutations in any of the genes listed in the tool.

SFARI is pleased to announce the addition of 23 distinguished investigators to our research community as part of our effort to support bold, imaginative and rigorous research aimed at understanding the causes of autism.

Does autism have a genetic basis? Although seen as one of the most pressing questions in autism research, few genes have been implicated in the disorder, and those that have been linked typically play minor roles. SFARI Gene, however, is a database helping researchers better probe their most vexing questions about autism.

SFARI Base shows potential to streamline and accelerate autism research. The database is designed to allow researchers easy access to a huge collection of phenotypic and genetic information. SFARI Base houses information from the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC), a project that will establish a permanent repository of genetic samples from 2,000 families.

The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) has recruited more than 1,000 families into its simplex collection, marking a milestone in the effort to collect DNA samples and phenotypic data from a total of 2,000 families.

The SFARI team is pleased to announce the launch of SFARI Gene, a new online tool for autism researchers.

The Simons Simplex Collection is releasing a second set of genetic samples and data, approximately doubling the amount of information from the project available to researchers.

The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of genetic samples and data from the Simons Simplex Collection.