The study identifies critical windows of metal exposure via baby teeth, revealing impacts on brain development and behavior ...

By analyzing layers in these teeth, scientists have pinpointed a critical window when baby brains are most vulnerable to ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report that early-life exposure to common environmental metals may ...

Researchers used baby teeth to prove that environmental metal exposure during specific weeks of infancy predicts adolescent ...

Introduction : Why teeth? -- I. Development. Microscopes, cells, and biological rhythms -- The big picture : birth, death, and everything in between -- Things that can go wrong : stress, pathology, ...

"Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had any effect upon it?