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...twin types now, identical and fraternal, but a third type is the focus of a new discovery. The story of these one-of-a-kind twins begins after natural conception and an uncomplicated term pregnancy, when the newborns were brought to the attention of science because one is anatomically male and one has sexually ambiguous genitalia...
...think that the egg probably carried an X and one sperm an X, and one sperm a Y. It's possible that it is far more complicated than that. But that's the simplified explanation," says Souter. The twins have different proportions of male cells (XY) and female cells (XX), and are chimeric, meaning they have tissue with a diverse genetic make-up. Twin A, identified as a hermaphrodite, has 5% XY and 95% XX after genetic testing of the skin. Comparatively, Twin B, the male...
...Eric Vilain, professor of urology and human genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA says: "You don't need to have 100% Y-chromosome to be male. If you have more than 15% of Y-chromosome in the gonads it's likely that you're going to be a male." Twin A, he adds, is ambiguous because the number of cells carrying a male-determining chromosome was not high enough to masculinize the twin. "They're both ambiguous, if you will, but only one is from a genital perspective." Vilain adds that people should retire the term...
...rest of the day, Qubah remained largely quiet as U.S. forces fanned out through the city. At each house, soldiers marked the back of the neck of each male with a number inked in black marker. By the end of the day, most every man in Qubah bore numbers like 600-10 and 730-5, designations for the neighborhood and home they were from according to a grid U.S. troops drew over the village. Lt. Col. Andrew Poppas said the numbering system allowed U.S. troops to tell whether anyone was moving about the village despite a lockdown...
...Fuqua, who directed Training Day and King Arthur, knows his male audience, and knows that they like how-to movies on survival against all odds. So he spends plenty of screen time showing Swagger at work: cauterizing his own bullet wound, driving backward off a bridge into a river, planting napalm (a nice Vietnam touch) in an enemy compound. Indeed, the film is best at giving instructions in the assembling and detonation of weapons of movie distraction. And Wahlberg, so muscled up he looks as if he's ready to explode, is serious and committed to the genre. We happen...