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

Foetus in Fetu (FIF) is an extremely rare condition that occurs in approximately one in 500,000 births. It involves the ...

It makes sense that identical twins would have the exact same DNA, right? Spoiler alert: Not always! Here's why. Identical ...

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

The rare condition, which affects approximately one in 500,000 births, involves the presence of a malformed fetus within the ...

A baby was discovered inside the stomach of a woman’s unborn child in Maharashtra’s Buldhana. The doctors detected the rare congenital anomaly after the 32-year-old woman underwent sonography two days ...

Here the authors track stem cell dynamics in monozygotic twins and provide evidence that clonal hematopoiesis in later life reflects weak selection conferred by stem cell variation before birth.

Diets high in fast food, processed red meat, and sugar-sweetened beverages and low in fruits and vegetables are associated with accelerated biological aging in young adulthood. The clustering effect ...

Here, we investigated the links among host genetic factors, gut microbiota and MetS in humans. Design We characterised the gut microbial community composition of 655 monozygotic (n=306) and dizygotic ...

Identical, or monozygotic, twins develop from the same fertilized egg that splits into two. These twins are the same sex and share the same genes. Sometimes called paternal twins, identical twins ...

Background Biological ageing is one of the principal risk factors for neurodegenerative diseases. It is becoming increasingly clear that acceleration of DNA methylation age, as measured by the ...