(AP) -- Conjoined twin girls who were separated in a 20-hour operation were in critical condition on Friday and one was in danger of dying, according to the director of the Chilean hospital where they are being treated.
Dec 16, 2011
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Reanalysis of data from a previous study on the familial risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) estimates the heritability to be 83 percent, suggesting that genetic factors may explain most of the risk for ASD, according ...
Sep 26, 2017
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A new study using magnetic resonance imaging data of 406 adult human twins affirms the long-standing idea that the genetic basis of human cortical regionalization – the organization of the outer brain into specific functional ...
Nov 16, 2011
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An international team, led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has discovered that "random" mutations in the genome are not quite so random after all. Their study, to be published ...
Dec 20, 2012
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Twins not only have a bestie from birth—they also live longer than singletons. And those two factors may be related, according to new University of Washington research.
Aug 19, 2016
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The brain changes that occur at the onset of psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder could originate from a disturbance in neuronal signaling pathways during brain development, RIKEN neuroscientists ...
Oct 30, 2020
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Inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis have complex disease mechanisms that can differ from patient to patient with the same diagnosis. This means that currently available drugs have little effect on many patients. ...
Feb 28, 2023
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High energy sound waves could treat a potentially deadly complication that affects some twin pregnancies, says new research.
Jul 13, 2016
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Digital twins are virtual representations of devices and processes that capture the physical properties of the environment and operational algorithms/techniques in the context of medical devices and technologies. Digital ...
Nov 2, 2022
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(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Iowa have found that three volunteer women with defective amygdalas were able to experience internal fear. In their paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the ...
