Are women who have twins more fertile? While previous studies concluded they are, a detailed analysis of more than 100,000 births from pre-industrial Europe by an international team of scientists shows they are not. The results ...
May 24, 2022
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Many of us have had the experience of disagreeing with friends or family about which celebrity is more attractive. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on October 1 show in a study of twins ...
Oct 1, 2015
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Vietnam has identified an extremely rare case of bi-paternal twins—twins with different fathers—a professor at a DNA testing lab in Hanoi told AFP Tuesday.
Mar 8, 2016
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Amid much speculation and research about how our genetics affect the way we age, a University of California, Berkeley, study now shows that individual differences in our DNA matter less as we get older and become prone to ...
Oct 7, 2022
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Many people report getting sick when they don't get enough sleep. A new study helps explain why.
Jan 27, 2017
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Some people are more sensitive than others—and around half of these differences can be attributed to our genes, new research has found.
Jun 2, 2020
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A study of twins conducted by Stanford University School of Medicine investigators shows that our environment, more than our heredity, plays the starring role in determining the state of our immune system, the body's primary ...
Jan 15, 2015
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Conjoined twin baby girls have been released from a hospital in China almost three weeks after they were separated in a marathon operation, state media reported Tuesday.
Aug 27, 2013
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Part of the risk for alcohol dependence is genetic, and the same is true for eating disorders. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found it's likely some of the same genes are involved ...
Aug 21, 2013
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A new study has found genetic makeup does not predispose people to tooth decay, however, the research did find that children with overweight mothers are more likely to have cavities.
Apr 29, 2019
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