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A new study in the lab of Jason Stein, Ph.D., modeled brain development in a dish to identify cells and genes that influence ...

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I CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT ROB REINER, and the tragic irony of the one day I ever spent with him. It was June 1998, and he was campaigning up and down California for Proposition 10—a ballot ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, screen time for children under two years old should be avoided ...

Ran Barzilay, a psychiatrist and researcher at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, won't be letting his 9-year-old son get a smartphone before age 13.

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