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Risk Of Premature Death Influenced By Patterns Of Early Childhood Adversity

Risk Of Premature Death Influenced By Patterns Of Early Childhood Adversity

Poverty, combined with other types of adversity in early childhood, is associated with greater chances of premature death in adulthood, compared to other adverse childhood experiences, according to a study of more than 46,000 people by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. Compared to children who did not experience early life adversity, childhood poverty …

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Chiral Molecules: Divide And Conquer

Chiral Molecules: Divide And Conquer

Breakthrough technology has been developed by researchers at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem with the possibility to create better medicines with fewer unwanted side effects, as published in Science. Chemical compounds are made up of many molecules, one of the most important being chiral molecules, which look alike and contain the same number of atoms …

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