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They find their twins, they stay with them for the whole year.
Let me introduce you to the Beery twins, diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of two.
You can probably tell there are two sets of twins, the result of IVF technology, in vitro fertilization technology, due to some physical limitations I won't go into.
They got married five years ago, and now they have two-year-old twins.
Their children, their six children, the two in the middle were twins, 13, a boy, and a girl named Grace.
And we can look in particular at three types of siblings: identical twins, twins that actually share 100 percent of their genetic information and shared the same intrauterine environment, versus fraternal twins, twins that actually share 50 percent of their genetic information, versus regular siblings, brother-sister, sister-sister, also sharing 50 percent of their genetic information, yet not sharing the same intrauterine environment.
And when you look at those concordance ratios, one of the striking things that you will see is that in identical twins, that concordance rate is 77 percent.
It is not that genes account for all of the risk for autism, but yet they account for a lot of that risk, because when you look at fraternal twins, that concordance rate is only 31 percent.
On the other hand, there is a difference between those fraternal twins and the siblings, suggesting that there are common exposures for those fraternal twins that may not be shared as commonly with siblings alone.
Somehow she manages to keep her seven children alive, and a few months later, she gives birth to premature twins.
She names the twins after the camp's commanders to gain their favor, and feeds them with black tea because her milk cannot sustain them.
Identical twins share 100 percent of their environment and 100 percent of their genes, whereas nonidentical twins share 100 percent of their environment, but just like any brother and sister, share only 50 percent of their genes.
So by comparing how similar GCSE results are in identical twins versus nonidentical twins and doing some clever maths, we can get an idea of how much variation in performance is due to the environment, and how much is due to genes.
It's time we made them more equal, more like twins.
So in a project funded by the Gates Foundation, what we're looking at is children in Malawi who have kwashiorkor, a profound form of malnutrition, and mice that get the kwashiorkor community transplanted into them lose 30 percent of their body mass in just three weeks, but we can restore their health by using the same peanut butter-based supplement that is used for the children in the clinic, and the mice that receive the community from the healthy identical twins of the kwashiorkor children do fine.
This is similar to what you might see in humans, in Siamese twins, and I know this sounds a bit creepy.
I also am the mother of three girls, a 21-year-old and nine-year-old twins.
A woman wrote to me to say, "I gave birth to twins and went back to work after seven unpaid weeks.
If we look closer, we see that these particles always come in pairs, like twins.
Grape or apple concentrate has the same effects on your body as its 55 sugary twins.
Identical twins, who have the same genes, can have different dominant hands.
Studies on families and on separated twins have shown a clear causal hereditary relationship to weight gain.
And as you're thinking of other things we've been doing, think about twins.
I was three months pregnant with twins when my husband Ross and I went to my second sonogram.
The doctor explained that one of our twins, Thomas, had a fatal birth defect called anencephaly.
But the other twin, Callum, appeared to be healthy, as far as the doctor could tell, and these twins were identical, genetically identical.
On March 23, 2010, the twins were born, and they were both born alive.
Next, we arranged a date for me to come visit the lab, and we chose March 23, 2015, which was the twins' fifth birthday.
Because it was our culture, it was our culture to kill twins.
To increase the odds of success, which are as high as 40% for a woman younger than 35, doctors sometimes transfer multiple embryos at once, which is why IVF results in twins and triplets more often than natural pregnancies.
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