You Know the Saying ‘Everyone Has a Twin’?…

You’ve heard it time and again. Somebody tells you that you look just like so and so, and you eek out the standard reply: “Well, they say everyone has a twin.”

Well, if you’re a seemingly normal 9-year-old girl in central Greece, you not only have a twin, but you carry her (or him) around in your stomach. Read more

Identical Twins Only Mostly So

February 16, 2008 by MedHeadlines  
Filed under Children's Health, Family, Headlines, Pregnancy

It’s been common knowledge for a long, long time that identical twins are exact genetic duplicates of each other. This sameness has made them highly valued study participants when research on genetic issues is conducted. Read more

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