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Brain cells in a dish used to study genetic origins of schizophrenia: In vitro model of human neuron development to investigate genetic risk for psychiatric disease

A study in Biological Psychiatry has established a new analytical method for investigating the complex genetic origins of mental illnesses

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Shorter life expectancy linked to 2016 presidential election outcome: Biggest Republican gains were in counties with shorter life expectancies and greater increases in deaths from drugs, alcohol, and suicide

Concerns about health and rising death rates may have helped tilt the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald J.

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One in every 5 deaths in young adults is opioid-related in the United States: Proportion of deaths that are opioid-related has increased by nearly 300 percent in 15 years

One out of every five deaths among young adults in the United States is related to opioids, suggests a study

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Now, you can hold a copy of your brain in the palm of your hand: New 3D printing technique enables faster, better, and cheaper models of patient-specific medical data for research and diagnosis

What if you could hold a physical model of your own brain in your hands, accurate down to its every

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