By Nancy Houser Dec 3, 2011 in Science. Hedy Lamarr is remembered as a stunning legend in Hollywood's Golden Age. However, most people do not know that she would co-patent the technology for today's cellphones, Wi-Fi and GPS by building a torpedo for the U.S.Navy. This may have remained the world's best kept secret if it were not for author Richard Rhodes.
Conjoined twins. Conjoined twins can now walk free after rare surgery at AIIMS. In a rare medical feat, doctors of AIIMS here today separated conjoined twins, who were connected with liver, after a ten-hour marathon surgery.are surgery underway to separate conjoined Tanzanian twins. A rarest of rare surgery to separate nine-month-old conjoined Tanzanian male twins, Ericana & Eluidi commenced at Apollo Hospitals today.
The presence of a given genetic trait in only one member of a pair of identical twins (called discordance) provides a powerful window into environmental effects. The classical twin design compares the similarity of monozygotic (identical) and dizygotic (fraternal) twins. If identical twins are considerably more similar than fraternal twins (which is found for most traits), this implicates that genes play an important role in these traits.