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Children of the 90s: Coming of age

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Researchers in Britain have tracked thousands of children since their birth in the 1990s. Now the study is 21, and turning to the next generation.

In a secure storage barn on the outskirts of Bristol, nearly 9,000 placentas float in plastic buckets of formaldehyde.

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