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Twenty years ago, scientists first “spelled out” the full sequence of 3 billion pairs of DNA “letters” that make up the human genome. In the years since, they have discovered and validated many…
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The U.N. estimates that over half a billion children around the world are growing up under traumatic circumstances caused by ethnic, religious, national, or tribal conflicts.
Over the last two…
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Abnormally formed proteins may be involved in the pathology that causes schizophrenia in a subset of patients, new research suggests.
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Evidence continues to mount that some and perhaps many of the biological abnormalities that underlie autism spectrum disorder (ASD) begin well before birth, as the brain’s cerebral cortex is…
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A research team has discovered something important—and encouraging—about what happens to the brain in the period immediately following the onset of schizophrenia. Based on analysis of functional MRI…
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