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It is said that boys are born with a weaker health condition than girls, but in a battle of the sexes inside the womb, they seem to be the winners, as revealed by a research made at the Tel Aviv University and published in the journal "Pediatrics." It appears that a male twin can affect the health of his twin sister ... |
8 April 2008
14:11 GMT |
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We know that twins are of two types. Some twins come from two different eggs fecundated by two different sperms (this means they can have different genders); they are just ordinary brothers born at the same moment. This are called dizygotic or non-indentical twins and, like any brothers, they share usually 40-60 % of... |
20 February 2008
05:06 GMT |
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In the conservative US, the federal "abstinence only" program has pushed hard and some researches seem to obviously reach the needed cause-and-effect link, as shown by a study released in February 2007 at Ohio State University, which found that losing virginity earlier makes youngsters 20 % more prone to juvenile cri... |
12 November 2007
05:46 GMT |
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When this child was born in Bihar (northern India), many villagers regarded her as the reincarnation of the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. And the girl received this name, Lakshmi.But Lakshmi Tatma is not a supernatural being; on the contrary, she was born with a headless, undeveloped parasitic twin joi... |
7 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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An average baby has at birth around 3.2 kg (7 pounds, 1 ounce). The heaviest baby ever was born in the US in 1879: 23 pounds, 12 ounces (10.7 kg), but he died 11 hours after being born, as too much or too little above/below the average value decreases fitness. The heaviest baby also to survive was born in 1955 in Ita... |
26 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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To 'sculpture' your own body usually means going to gym and model your muscles. But for others the meaning may go beyond your imagination. Ryan and Dave from Phoenix, Arizona, are surely the most unique twins in the world. They do not only share the same DNA, but their bodies also. Literally. After getting ... |
7 August 2007
14:31 GMT |
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This story seems taken from the X-Files or a Stephen King novel, but it is in fact the most severe case of fetus in fetu ever recorded. It occurs in 1 in 500,000 live births and it is a developmental abnormality in which a parasitic twin fetus grows within its host twin. This phenomenon takes place very early in a tw... |
2 August 2007
14:21 GMT |
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Would you still love your brother if you knew that because of him you've got no chance to have a healthy sex life and/or getting married? Because this is the case of girls born in mixed sex twin couples. Same sex female twin couples seem not to present this problem. A team led by Virpi Lummaa at University of Sh... |
19 June 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Naturally, the occurrence of twins amongst humans is rare and somehow linked to genetics.For example, in a Nigerian tribe, the twins' occurrence is very common. Triplets are quite an exception amongst humans. But the hormonal bouleversement induced by former use of contraceptive pills or fertility treatments hav... |
12 June 2007
10:51 GMT |
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By definition, twins are born by the same mother. But here are Lauren and Hannah Bernaba, born minutes apart and with almost identical looks. Biologically, it's just as if they were twins. These girls are the world's first twins to be born on the same day to two different women. First biological mother Amy ... |
11 June 2007
14:21 GMT |
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The scientific world is shocked by the world's only known case of "semi-identical" twins. Signaled by journals Nature and Human Genetics, this American case (whose exact location has not been revealed) is of a twin pair identical on their mother's side, but sharing only half their genes on their father'... |
27 March 2007
07:02 GMT |
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Having a twin sister proves to be a huge reproductive disadvantage for males. At least for the saiga antelopes roaming the Eurasian steppe. A three years research found that male twins who have a sister present a lower, sub-optimal birth bodyweight than those with a brother, a trait they will display also at maturity... |
19 March 2007
07:45 GMT |
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If you're the second twin, just thank God you're alive! Because a nine-year British research, conducted between 1994 and 2003, found that being a second born twin means a slightly higher risk of dying from fatal complications during birth. Twins born preterm (before 36 weeks) have no difference in the overa... |
7 March 2007
07:28 GMT |
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