In January 2025, doctors at the Buldhana District Women’s Hospital in Maharashtra detected a rare case of “foetus in foetu” ...

A visit to a burlesque show—and a comment from the legendary playwright Lynn Nottage—provided the kernel of inspiration ...

Photographs showed the facial differences between twins, one of whom allegedly smoked and tanned for 16 years while the other ...

It makes sense that identical twins would have the exact same DNA, right? Spoiler alert: Not always! Here's why. Identical twins (also called monozygotic or MZ twins) are conceived when a single sperm ...

Twin B (right) had approximately 10 hours per ... factors may contribute to facial aging: This analysis of monozygotic twins inherently allowed for the control of the genetic influences of ...

Find out everything you've always wanted to know about identical twins – from how they form to what makes them unique.

We sought to identify the existence of somatic mutations occurring early in human development by ascertaining base-pair mutations present in one of a pair of monozygotic twins, but absent from the ...

Methods A 10-year follow-up of MRI-determined LDD was performed in 234 pairs of twin volunteers in the UK and Australia, comprising 90 monozygotic pairs and 144 dizygotic same-sex twin pairs. Of the ...