as in child
a recently born person
infants should be kept warm at all times
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Frederica Perera, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
Take the quiz here … ROOT CAUSES – Stem cell research showing new possibilities for treating infant heart disease.
—Fox News, 31 Oct. 2024
Dallas News, 17 May 2022
The Sturgis plant closed in February after regulators launched an investigation into possible links between formula produced there and a series of infant bacterial infections and two deaths.
—Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes, 16 May 2022
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Everything from infant death and childhood asthma to mental health conditions has been linked to air pollution.
—Frederica Perera, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
Take the quiz here … ROOT CAUSES – Stem cell research showing new possibilities for treating infant heart disease.
—Fox News, 31 Oct. 2024
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Arnaout warned against attempting to make formula at home, because commercial formulas are specially designed for infant nutritional needs.
—Dallas News, 17 May 2022
The Sturgis plant closed in February after regulators launched an investigation into possible links between formula produced there and a series of infant bacterial infections and two deaths.
—Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes, 16 May 2022
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Many families — 41 students total — living in Castro’s boundary send their children to other schools in the district.Jessica Seaman, The Denver Post, 9 Nov. 2024
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Loading your audio article SAN JOSE — Dozens of parents and their children gathered Thursday evening to protest potential closures in Berryessa Union School District and ask officials to consider alternative solutions for budget constraints.Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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For instance, the team of archeologists found embryonic signs of trade.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
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Seventeen years ago, the world woke up to an astounding scientific breakthrough: a team of Japanese scientists, led by Shinya Yamanaka, had reprogrammed skin cells to resemble an embryonic state.Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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About 370,000 babies were born at 37 weeks’ gestation or earlier last year, according to the report.Erika Edwards, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The study also reveals that Amazon’s prices for everyday essentials – such as beauty, baby, and household products – are 1% to 6% lower than other retailers.Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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But, as arguably fashion’s top social platform and a budding e-commerce giant in its own right, TikTok, along with its partners and massive trove of 150 million U.S. users, hopes so.Adriana Lee, WWD, 4 Nov. 2024
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Having a prepackaged piece of malware also dramatically lowers the barrier to entry for a budding new hacker.Joseph Cox, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
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Brittany could be seen asking the toddler in the clip.Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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In the picture, Katharine had a blue jacket draped around her shoulder, while the toddler wore a striped shirt with some pants.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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The sculpture is a miracle, the museum guide will tell you, proof that this artist, born in the Sichuan region of China, who arrived in America in the late Nineties, is the third coming of the primordial Buddha.Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
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For life to arise from Earth’s primordial ingredients, early cells needed some way to keep their contents from simply drifting away.ByMitch Leslie, science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
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Even though Celeste told the woman that her boyfriend had a newborn, Ellie’s father never came back.Laura Bradley, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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Cindy, introducing her newborn to followers, was shocked to see Swift commenting live.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Some believe — and were trained to think — the disease begins in the germinal center, a structure in the lymph nodes where immune cells interact with antigens in a way that creates a powerful pathogen-fighting response (think vaccines and infections).Isabella Cueto, STAT, 18 June 2022
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But germinal centers did not form in the thoracic lymph nodes and spleens of the autopsied COVID-19 patients, the researchers reported.Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 25 Aug. 2020
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“Infant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infant. Accessed 20 Nov. 2024.
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