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Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

During intensive care after preterm births, babies can experience low oxygen in their tissue and cells-or hypoxia.