An Indiana woman's brain tumor turned out to contain hair, bone and teeth, and has been dubbed her "embryonic twin" — but experts say that such tumors are not actually twins, nor are they embryos. The ...

Yamini Karanam got quite a surprise when doctors revealed the results of her brain tumour. Photo: GoFundMe Doctors have discovered an embryonic twin complete with bone, hair and teeth in the brain of ...

A WOMAN in India shocked doctors when she gave birth to a baby boy, with the head and arms of his parasitic twin still attached to his chest. The yet-to-be named baby is fully formed but has his twin, ...

An end to the boom in IVF twins and triplets was sounded yesterday. Under plans that could spell heartache for thousands of childless couples, regulators want to cap the number of multiple births.

Identical twins may not be quite as identical as we thought; researchers in Iceland have discovered genetic differences that begin at the early stages of embryonic development. Scientists have long ...

A girl of nine taken to hospital suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said yesterday. Experts believe that, as a foetus, the girl had absorbed her twin ...

A Chinese woman has delivered a healthy boy from an embryo frozen for 10 years - a decade after the birth of her elder son conceived in the same round of IVF, according to a hospital. The mother, ...

Doctors have discovered an embryonic twin complete with bone, hair and teeth in the brain of a woman having surgery for a suspected tumour. Yamini Karanam, 26, sought medical help last September after ...

The baby boy is fully formed, but his parasitic twin never properly developed in the womb. Doctors say chances of saving the boy and separating him are high A WOMAN in India shocked doctors when she ...

Identical twins may not be quite as identical as we thought; researchers in Iceland have discovered genetic differences that begin at the early stages of embryonic development. Scientists have long ...

Under plans that could spell heartache for thousands of childless couples, regulators want to cap the number of multiple births. Clinics are currently permitted to return two or even three embryos to ...