infancy

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Some scientists said shaping microbiomes during infancy could potentially prevent disease and improve health later on.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

"While our study is in its infancy, the findings provide a framework for understanding how aging-associated molecular changes affect neural stem cell behavior, and may ultimately guide the development of successful therapeutics."

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2026

Artificial intelligence may still be in its infancy, but this mainstay of the stock market rally now has investors worried it will be its downfall.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

Most of these children were born during the pandemic and spent much of their infancy quarantined indoors, their earliest socialization filtered through the blue light of tablets and television, Aguet said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

As of 1920, about 13 out of every 100 black children died in infancy, or roughly 20,000 children each year—compared to 28 people who were lynched in a year.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt