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The term conjoined twinning refers to an incomplete splitting of monozygotic twins after 12 days of embryogenesis. (medscape.com)
Identical twins are also sometimes called monozygotic twins, because they came from the same fertilized egg. (healthline.com)
Conjoined twins are monozygotic twins who are joined at some region of their bodies. (howstuffworks.com)
The main theory proposes that it happens when a fertilized egg that is going to split into a monozygotic set of twins doesn't fully separate. (howstuffworks.com)
Castelbaum, L. On the nature of monozygotic twin concordance for autistic trait severity: A quantitative analysis. (nih.gov)
Cognitive deficits and magnetic resonance spectroscopy in adult monozygotic twins with lead poisoning. (nih.gov)

Photos of the Chicago White Sox's 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, at Guaranteed Rate Field. (chicagotribune.com)
Just click the team link below to find Minnesota Twins Miami Marlins ticket information. (ballparks.com)
The Minnesota Twins began as the Washington Senators in 1901. (ballparks.com)
Year in and year out it seems like the Minnesota Twins end up either winning the AL Central or at least making a serious run at it. (ballparks.com)
TicketTriangle.com is a top source for Minnesota Twins Miami Marlins baseball tickets on the Internet! (ballparks.com)
You can order your Minnesota Twins vs. Miami Marlins tickets through the TicketTriangle website 24 hours a day 7 days a week. (ballparks.com)
The Minnesota Twins entered their inaugural season of 1961 with more motivation than most sports teams to emphasize their team name. (life.com)
In our continuing preview of the 2023 MLB Playoffs, Hannah tells listeners why they should be rooting for the Minnesota Twins in the postseason. (yahoo.com)
The Minnesota Twins season is coming to an end, Ted Schwerzler from Twins Daily and OffTheBaggy.com, breaks it down for ya. (spreaker.com)

Diagnosed as Siamese twins before birth, they were kept in hospital until they were old enough to be operated on. (foxnews.com)
They achieved such fame that the term "Siamese twins" would come to be used to describe the condition of conjoined twins, when in Chang and Eng's case, it was used simply to denote their homeland. (mentalfloss.com)

The major types of conjoined twins were described in 1573 by the French renaissance surgeon Ambroise Pare. (medscape.com)

Closer Liam Hendriks celebrates after the White Sox defeated the Twins 3-2 on Oct. 3, 2022, at Guaranteed Rate Field. (chicagotribune.com)
White Sox center fielder AJ Pollock scores past Twins catcher Gary Sanchez on a double by Carlos Perez during the seventh inning on Oct. 3, 2022, at Guaranteed Rate Field. (chicagotribune.com)
White Sox starting pitcher Johnny Cueto tries to throw out Twins DH Matt Wallner, who reached on an infield single during the seventh inning on Oct. 3, 2022, at Guaranteed Rate Field. (chicagotribune.com)
White Sox center fielder AJ Pollock misses a ball hit by Twins second baseman Nick Gordon for a first-inning double on Oct. 3, 2022, at Guaranteed Rate Field. (chicagotribune.com)
White Sox shortstop Elvis Andrus tags out Twins shortstop Carlos Correa (4) at second base during the first inning on Oct. 3, 2022, at Guaranteed Rate Field. (chicagotribune.com)
The twins, Yaad and Tukada, were born in October 2022 and have become viral sensations on the Zoo's social media channels. (yahoo.com)

Two major categories twins are typically divided into are identical and fraternal . (healthline.com)
On the other hand, fraternal twins only share about 50 percent of their chromosomes, as other siblings do. (healthline.com)
Fraternal twins are also called dizygotic twins, because they come from two different eggs. (healthline.com)
Well, there's even more to it than whether they are identical and fraternal if you want to know how a set of twins developed. (healthline.com)
The type of twins (fraternal or identical) and the timing of their development affects whether the babies shared or had their own separate chorionic and amniotic sacs . (healthline.com)
The more FSH you have in your bloodstream, the greater your chances of producing more than one egg in each cycle, and having fraternal twins as a result. (slate.com)
Fraternal twins come from two separate eggs, which are fertilized at the same time. (healthychildren.org)
Both identical and fraternal twins may become either competitive or interdependent as they grow. (healthychildren.org)
In contrast, fraternal twins-who shared the same home environment, but, on average, shared just half of their genes-had patterns of eye movement that were far less similar. (nih.gov)

Older women are having twins and other higher-order multiple births at an increasingly high rate, according to a new report by the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)

Parasitic twinning is when one conjoined twin is much smaller and perhaps not as fully formed or developed as the larger twin. (howstuffworks.com)
The Internet Movie Database reports that actor Andy Garcia was born with a conjoined parasitic twin. (howstuffworks.com)
Another even more rare form of parasitic conjoined twinning exists. (howstuffworks.com)

Following an average annual decline of 2% from 2014 to 2019, the number of twin births fell by 7% from 2019 to 2020 and increased by 2% from 2020 to 2021. (cdc.gov)

A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives. (waterstones.com)
Parents Sarah and Angus have lost one of their identical twin daughters and a year on the family moves to a Scottish island to start a. (waterstones.com)
Born four minutes before Rami, 38-year-old Sami Malek is an identical twin. (ask.com)
Preliminary results are in from NASA's unprecedented twin study - a detailed probe of the genetic differences between astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent nearly a consecutive year in space, and his identical twin Mark. (nature.com)
Previous studies have found that when one identical twin has ASD, chances are extremely likely that the other twin has it, too. (nih.gov)
The authors analyzed data from three previous studies comprising a total of 366 identical twin pairs with and without ASD. (nih.gov)

In a mo/mo pregnancy (more scientifically referred to as a monochorionic monoamniotic pregnancy) the twins share both the chorionic and amniotic sacs. (healthline.com)

Research published in the journal Institute of General Linguistics found that twin babies often use each other to learn vocabulary. (rd.com)
When someone talks about twins they are referring to two babies that develop during the same pregnancy, but this can happen in many different ways. (healthline.com)
When our twin boys were babies and toddlers, we were operating in survival mode, so we usually read to them simultaneously. (healthychildren.org)
Having twins (or other "multiples," such as triplets) means much more than simply having two babies at once, and this challenge goes beyond having twice or three times the work or pleasure. (healthychildren.org)
We report the case of a lactating EBOV-positive mother and her twin babies. (cdc.gov)

141 Career home runs by Brian Dozier, tying him with Michael Cuddyer for 10th in Twins history. (startribune.com)
A pair of unnamed twins in the 10th century managed to survive infancy and were documented by several authors of the time . (mentalfloss.com)

Well, if two twins share a chorion, they'll share one placenta. (healthline.com)
As we discussed earlier, the sooner the split occurs, the more independent the MZ twins will be in relation to having separate or shared chorion, amnion and placenta. (howstuffworks.com)

A family history of twins also makes multiples more likely. (nih.gov)
Or maybe women are getting taller: A Long Island Jewish Medical Center study found that women who birth twins or other multiples were, on average, more than an inch taller than women who only birthed one child at a time. (rd.com)
Twins and other multiples quite frequently are born early and therefore tend to be smaller than the average newborn, so you may need to consult your pediatrician even more frequently than you would with a single baby. (healthychildren.org)

Terata Catadidyma refers to twins joined in the lower portion of their body, or they may appear to be two bodies on top and one body on the bottom. (howstuffworks.com)
Terata Anadidyma refers to twins with one single upper body with a double lower half or twins who are connected by a single body part. (howstuffworks.com)
Terata Anacatadidyma refers to twins who are joined somewhere along the midsection of the body. (howstuffworks.com)

2 days ago Buxton (knee) is expected to begin baseball activities next week and the Twins plan for him to be the team's starting center fielder next season, the Bobby Nightengale of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. (espn.com)

A great way to treat your twins as individuals is to read their bedtime stories to them individually at night. (healthychildren.org)
The time and work to read to your twins individually is well worth the effort. (healthychildren.org)
To discourage the twins from forming such exclusive bonds, urge them to play individually (not as a unit) with other children. (healthychildren.org)
This unique developmental pattern does not represent a problem, but it does make it all the more important to separate your twins occasionally and expose them individually to other playmates and learning situations. (healthychildren.org)

Remind each twin to respect their siblings' personal space-older and younger siblings' space as well, as twins can outnumber an older brother and confiscate a special toy by sheer manpower alone. (healthychildren.org)
As your twins get older, particularly if they are identical, they may choose to play only with each other, making their other siblings feel left out. (healthychildren.org)
Celebrity siblings often make epic pairings - but what about celebrity twins? (ask.com)
Aaron and Angel Carter are twins and the kid siblings of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter. (ask.com)

Before the Twins (formerly the Washington Senators) moved to Minnesota in '61, the local baseball scene was defined by the fierce rivalry between two Triple A teams, the Minneapolis Millers and St. Paul Saints. (life.com)

If twins have separate chorion, they will have two separate placentas. (healthline.com)
Like the chorion, twins can either share an amnion or have one all of their own. (healthline.com)

Digital twins' powerful simulation capabilities are now making waves in robotic installations. (asme.org)
Digital twins are powerful. (asme.org)
As described by Industrial Internet Consortium in the whitepaper Digital Twins for Industrial Applications , the digital twin "represent objects in the real world dynamically… connected to their respective real-world twin, sometimes in real-time, to collect and organize data from the corresponding real-world objects. (asme.org)
There are several use cases of how digital twins are being deployed. (asme.org)
The recent blog post, Digital twins: How they can help scale up industrial robotics AI , explained how useful a digital twin for robotic installations could be. (asme.org)
Digital Twins create virtual replicas of small and large-scale physical objects, buildings, cities, regions and systems, a technology game-changer for the future of smart cities. (www.csiro.au)
The tool aggregates high-value transport, infrastructure, property, planning and environmental datasets directly from governments, industry and other data owners, as well as from other digital twins and geographic systems. (www.csiro.au)
Digital twins can also be incorporated into augmented or virtual reality systems, allowing those in building and construction to visualise in-situ how a construction project might look, including the building height, construction materials used, and energy output. (www.csiro.au)
Digital Twins are scalable technologies, meaning they can be applied on a large city/regional scope, down to a building/infrastructure level, and even further down to a small object level. (www.csiro.au)

Progesterone therapy does not reduce the chances of preterm birth in women pregnant with twins, reported researchers in a network sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. (nih.gov)
After the initial study showed progesterone therapy could reduce the likelihood of preterm birth in women carrying a single baby and who had previously given birth prematurely, many physicians began prescribing the therapy for women pregnant with twins and for other categories of women at risk for preterm birth as well. (nih.gov)
In the study, 655 women pregnant with twins were randomly assigned to receive weekly injections of a placebo or the form of progesterone known as 17-alpha hydroxyprogesterone caproate (17-OHPC), explained Catherine Y. Spong, M.D., Branch Chief of NICHD's Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, and the NICHD author of the study. (nih.gov)
The study could not determine whether progesterone therapy could reduce the chances of preterm birth in women pregnant with twins who had delivered prematurely in a previous pregnancy. (nih.gov)

Besides being just plain hot, the aesthetically gifted 26-year-old blondes featured in the campaign are twin sisters. (salon.com)
Twin sisters whose four blue eyes seem always to be saying, "Hey boys, anyone up for a three-way? (salon.com)
I would also come to know that explaining I have no problem, but am simply wondering why it is that the implicit sexual relationship between twin sisters sits just fine with him, and in fact strikes him as fucking awesome, was not only futile but cruel. (salon.com)
In Singapore in 2003, skull and brain separation of 29-year-old craniopagus Iranian twins, Ladan and Laleh Bijani, was unsuccessful, and the sisters died of exsanguination on the operating table. (medscape.com)

Adult twins groan when they remember all the times that they received 2 of the same item, maybe in different colors. (healthychildren.org)
Fetus in fetu is when a malformed twin is discovered inside the body of a host twin - a living child or adult. (howstuffworks.com)

According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the U.S. twin rate has skyrocketed from one pair born out of every 53 live births in 1980 to one out of every 31 births in 2008. (slate.com)

Identical twins may share DNA, but exposure to different areas of the womb during development affects the fingertips' ridges and whorls. (rd.com)
In a mo/di pregnancy (more scientifically referred to as a monochorionic diamniotic pregnancy) the twins share a chorionic sac, but have different amniotic sacs. (healthline.com)
The genius of Digital Twin is that it's opened and shared, so we can share ideas using this great platform, and when you share ideas, you generate progress, you generate innovation, and you generate the good for the people of our state. (www.csiro.au)
Twins know how to share well, having shared their parents with each other since they were newborns, but expecting twins to share all their things all the time is unrealistic. (healthychildren.org)
Even if your twins share a bedroom, you can provide each twin with a distinctly colored box that they can keep their special things in-a rock collection, a favor from a friend's party, whatever they decide is important to them. (healthychildren.org)
Identical twins with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience large differences in symptom severity even though they share the same DNA, according to an analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health. (nih.gov)
The study authors do not know the reasons for differences in symptom severity, but they rule out genetic and most environmental causes because the twins share the same DNA and were raised in the same environment. (nih.gov)
The experiments showed that identical twins-who share the same genes and the same home environment-spend almost precisely the same proportion of time looking at faces, even when watching different videos. (nih.gov)

Studies of twins make it possible to estimate the overall contribution of inherited genes to the development of malignant diseases. (nih.gov)

Comparison of international guidelines on the management of twin pregnancy. (nih.gov)
Pregnancy outcomes and risk factors for preeclampsia in dichorionic twin pregnancies after in vitro fertilization: a five-year retrospective study. (nih.gov)
Aggressive Pelvic Angiomyxoma in a Patient with Twin Pregnancy: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Clinical Complications in Light of the Literature. (nih.gov)
If you've ever seen this video of newborn twins being bathed for the first time, it won't come as a surprise to hear that twins may begin interacting the in womb as early as 14 weeks into a pregnancy. (rd.com)
In a di/di pregnancy (more scientifically referred to as a dichorionic diamniotic pregnancy) the twins each have their own chorionic and amniotic sacs. (healthline.com)

If you also have other children, your twin newborns may prompt more than the usual sibling rivalry. (healthychildren.org)

From the lengths of the twins' chromosomes to the microbiomes in their guts, "almost everyone is reporting that we see differences", says Christopher Mason, a geneticist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. (nature.com)
Along the way, historical differences in twin birth rates between non-Hispanic white and black mothers have largely been eliminated. (cdc.gov)

We combined data on 44,788 pairs of twins listed in the Swedish, Danish, and Finnish twin registries in order to assess the risks of cancer at 28 anatomical sites for the twins of persons with cancer. (nih.gov)
At least one cancer occurred in 10,803 persons among 9512 pairs of twins. (nih.gov)
In contrast, among pairs of identical twins without ASD, the scores for traits were very similar. (nih.gov)
The major goal of step 1 is to identify a large cohort of twin pairs, in which at least one member of each pair is likely to have PCOS. (nih.gov)

One twin died, and emergency surgery was attempted to separate them -the first known separation attempt. (mentalfloss.com)
In your living and play areas, create separate play stations so that there are interesting things to do at different places in the home-one twin can play Lincoln Logs in one area while the other goes in the other room to listen to a kids' CD player. (healthychildren.org)
This type of twin is supposed to occur when one egg splits before fertilization and is then fertilized by two separate sperm. (howstuffworks.com)

The researchers found that the use of progesterone did not reduce premature birth in twin pregnancies when compared with the placebo group: 41.5 percent of women on progesterone treatments delivered prematurely (before 35 weeks) or experienced fetal loss vs. 37.3 percent of women receiving placebo injections. (nih.gov)

Older mothers are more likely to have twins, but they're also more likely to use in vitro fertilization or other reproductive technologies in order to get pregnant. (slate.com)
Out of the approximately 7145 twin women of reproductive age who completed these MATR screening questionnaires, 1803 women reported irregular periods, 954 reported ovarian cysts, and 526 reported both irregular periods and ovarian cysts. (nih.gov)

When a fertilized egg splits later than usual, identical twins' appearance and other traits can mirror each other. (rd.com)
Conjoined twins are produced when this inner cell mass, derived from a single zygote, incompletely splits late, after the 12th day of gestational life (see the image below). (medscape.com)

The birthrate for twins has increased 76% since 1980, an uptick that some experts attribute to older women having children (women in their thirties are more likely than women in their twenties to have twins). (rd.com)
Trends in Twin and Triplet Births: 1980-97. (cdc.gov)
The report, "Trends in Twin and Triplet Births: 1980-97," shows that between 1980-82 and 1995-97 the twin birth rate rose 63 percent for women between the ages of 40 and 44 and nearly 1,000 percent for women 45-49 years of age. (cdc.gov)
Overall, from 1980 to 1997 the number of twin births in the United States rose 52 percent (from 68,339 to 104,137) and triplet and higher births rose 404 percent (from 1,377 to 6,737 births). (cdc.gov)

usually cocteau twins listeners listen to them when they're high or tipsy and stuff. (urbandictionary.com)

University of Utah researchers who studied birth and death records between 1800 and 1970 found that the mothers of twins tend to live longer than moms without twins. (rd.com)
The researchers determined a 96% chance that if one twin has ASD, the other has it, too. (nih.gov)
The researchers estimated that genetic factors contributed to only 9% of the cause of trait variation among these twins. (nih.gov)

This year American women will give birth to more than 140,000 sets of twins. (rd.com)
In addition, blog sites have been set up for certain sets of twins. (medscape.com)
Here are the stories of a few sets of conjoined twins who gained fame in the past. (mentalfloss.com)
Yi Ting Tan is inviting more sets of twins to help her understand the role genetics play in developing the ability to sing in tune. (abc.net.au)
Shop JCPenney's assortment of sheet sets and find the perfect twin sheet set. (jcpenney.com)
The fathers of two sets of identical twins who all have learning disabilities say their two eldest have reached a milestone they thought they may never see. (itv.com)
The bat boy auditions, which were held at Memorial Stadium and photographed for LIFE by Francis Miller, drew 74 sets of twins, and the young men were served hot dogs and milk as they waited to be interviewed for a chance to wear that beautiful new uniform. (life.com)
As was the case in the auditions, on the show they are alongside other sets of twins, waiting to see if they will be picked. (life.com)
There are probably less than 50 sets of non-separated conjoined twins living in the world today. (howstuffworks.com)
The purpose of this FOA is to accelerate progress in behavioral genomics and aging via the establishment of a twin-epigenomic network that will facilitate collaboration between existing twin studies of aging, including work on the harmonization of phenotypes and (epi)genotype collection procedures as well as the development of statistical methods for the analysis and meta-analysis of data sets including genomic, epigenomic, gene expression, and behavioral phenotypic data. (nih.gov)

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Cite this: Conjoined Twins - Medscape - Oct 01, 2003. (medscape.com)

Unless you are a twin or have given birth to twins, you may be confused about the different types of twins and what their genetic makeups are. (healthline.com)
Because identical twins come from the same egg/sperm, their chromosomes will be identical, which means they will be the same sex and have the same genetic characteristics (e.g., hair and eye color). (healthline.com)
Because of the detailed nature and sheer amount of the genetic information involved in the studies, the Kelly twins will review all information before it is published, to avoid revealing sensitive data they may wish to keep private. (nature.com)
Twin research supported by the National Institute on Aging has transformed our understanding of behavior over the lifespan and allowed us to study the interplay of genetic and environmental factors that affect how we age (e.g. lifestyle factors, socio-economic status, social engagement), age-related changes in behavior (e.g. cognition, personality) and behavioral concomitants of healthy aging (e.g. well-being) using primarily a quantitative genetic approach. (nih.gov)

Thereby leaving the twins physically connected to each other. (howstuffworks.com)

Years ago, most twins came as a surprise. (nih.gov)
Double, triple and an inside-the-park homer leave him just a single shy of the Twins' first cycle in eight years. (startribune.com)
A few years later I left that band and became a Nova Twin. (prsformusic.com)
Two is that none of the Twins' full-time, season-long players had particularly outstanding years, leaving Sano's great half-season to compete against good but not great full seasons. (minnpost.com)
The Twins have won two World Series and, in recent years, have fielded division leading teams. (ballparks.com)
The twins were kidnapped by another exhibitor and only found three years later, in England, and returned to the States. (mentalfloss.com)
It may seem in recent years like the possibility of twins is becoming more and more of an everyday reality. (healthline.com)
And what's going to happen in years to come-will the multiple-birth rate continue to grow until America ends up a nation of twins? (slate.com)
Many years ago, nearly to the day, I responded to an editorial regarding consolidation of the Twin Cities. (sunjournal.com)
As the years progressed and our twins were easier to care for, we saw that it would benefit both boys to have their bedtime stories read to them one-on-one. (healthychildren.org)
When our twins were 3 years old, we noticed that sharks fascinated Ryan and Andrew was interested in fire trucks, so on their birthday we ran with these themes. (healthychildren.org)
The risk for these adverse outcomes was lowest for twins and triplet and higher born to women 35-44 years of age. (cdc.gov)

And its twinning rate-43 for every 1,000 live births-is third in the nation. (slate.com)
Its twinning rate is the lowest in the United States, at 24.7 per 1,000 live births. (slate.com)
Rates of low birthweight, very low birthweight, and infant mortality were 4 to 33 times higher for twins and triplet and higher births compared with singleton births. (cdc.gov)

Facebook also has a support circle of friends of conjoined twins. (medscape.com)

By utilizing the digital twin of the production system and the product, it is now possible to significantly shorten the time taken to set up and validate a robotic system with integrated vision and machine learning," said Zachi Mann and Shahar Zuler, Siemens software engineers, and Albert Harouninan researcher and software engineering. (asme.org)
He was, of course, talking about the IRL oddity that is the ATL Twins , who, at the time, he'd just cast in his 2013 teen tearaway flick Spring Breakers as Alien's (played by James Franco ) drug dealing sidekicks. (dazeddigital.com)
The Twins dug themselves a huge hole at the start of the 2011 campaign, and will have a long road for the rest of the season to find their way out of it, especially in the AL Central where there are many teams vying for the crown ahead of time. (ballparks.com)
Hannah Keyser and Zach Crizer bandwagon a couple of more playoff-bound teams, this time focusing on the Twins and Orioles, but not before they break down the news of Julio Urías' arrest and Shohei Ohtani's photo day body double. (yahoo.com)
Don't expect your twins to play with the same items all the time. (healthychildren.org)
Whatever the specific quality of their interaction, most twins develop very intense relationships early in life simply because they spend so much time with each other. (healthychildren.org)
Because they spend so much time together, many twins communicate better with each other than with other family members or friends. (healthychildren.org)
Actually publishing the results of the twin study will take some time, and the full data may never come out. (nature.com)
And when identical twins watched the same video, they tended to look at the same thing at almost exactly the same time! (nih.gov)

Conjoined twins are not as rare as they once were, for several reasons: if birth anomalies occur in a percentage of the population, there will be more of them in a larger population, and with advanced medical procedures, they are more likely to survive birth. (mentalfloss.com)
Records of conjoined twins from so far back are quite rare, as birth anomalies in the ancient world were often deemed to be a bad omen and the children allowed to die. (mentalfloss.com)
Judith, the twin whose birth was delayed, was the weaker of the two. (mentalfloss.com)
A mother who is 35, for example, is four times more likely than a mother who is 20 to give birth to twins. (slate.com)
The twin birth rate in the U.S. is just over 3 percent. (healthychildren.org)
The small malformed twin was surgically removed shortly after birth. (howstuffworks.com)
Research indicates that about 40 to 60 percent of conjoined twins are stillborn (deceased at birth). (howstuffworks.com)
Comparable but less pronounced rises were observed in twin and triplet and higher birth rates. (cdc.gov)

These questions imply that each twin's character traits are defined as the opposite of those of his twin brother. (healthychildren.org)
The severity of autism traits and symptoms in the twins was measured by a clinician's assessment or by parents' ratings on a standardized questionnaire. (nih.gov)

It may have been less jarring for Twins fans to watch if he'd simply been a .750 OPS hitter all year instead of being an All-Star in the first half and replacement-level in the second half, but in assessing all-around value for the season as a whole Dozier has a reasonable argument for being team MVP. (minnpost.com)

First, I want to know whether the task 'worked', that is, if the MID contrast for cue5-cue0 shows the same pattern of significant clusters in our sample as has been shown previously in the literature, but controlling for non-independence of twins. (nih.gov)

Studies of the twins' telomeres, the caps on the ends of their chromosomes, showed that during spaceflight Scott's telomeres grew to be longer than his brother's. (nature.com)

French doctors have successfully separated twins joined at the spine, the first operation of its kind in France, hospital officials said Wednesday. (foxnews.com)
The twins were born prematurely at 26 weeks, weighing just 1.7 pounds each and fused at the base of the spine. (foxnews.com)

While the power of twin relationships is undoubtedly strong, things tend to get complicated when celebrities have non-famous twins. (ask.com)

A successfully staged separation of craniopagus twins (Carl and Clarence Aguirre) took place from 2003 to 2004 at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. (medscape.com)

The Twin Cities Drupal community mostly organizes at https://groups.drupal.org/twin-cities -- the Meetups listed here are the same events. (meetup.com)

Later, as black holes entered the vernacular, a natural term emerged for their theoretical twins. (space.com)
Believe it or not, the term twins is pretty broad! (healthline.com)

Muscat - As part of a fruitful inter-regional collaboration, the World Health Organization (WHO) country offices in Yemen and Oman linked the Omani Medical Specialty Board to the University of Aden Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in a recent twinning project that delivered the fundamentals of a critical care support course for 24 intensive care unit doctors working in public hospitals in Yemen. (who.int)

The judges concluded that separation was in the best interests of both children, even though it meant the death of the weaker twin. (medscape.com)

An increased risk was found among the twins of affected persons for stomach, colorectal, lung, breast, and prostate cancer. (nih.gov)
If you've found out you're having twins (or just recently met a family with a pair of twins), you may wonder, how did this happen? (healthline.com)
We just found out we're having twins! (healthychildren.org)

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