Doctors in Shanghai, China, foundparasitic twins” or “Fetus-in-Fetus” In a 1-year-old girl after receiving treatment for abnormalities in motor skills and abnormally large head size.
This discovery waspublishedPublished in the Journal of Neuroscience December issue 2022, stating that from sequencing the genome, it was learned that the parasite embryo was the girl’s twin.
For Fetus-in-Fetu It is an abnormality in the development of one twin. and was swallowed up into the bodies of the twins growing normally Which in this case is the forebrain When the embryo stage Blastocyst (Blastocyst), which is a group of dividing cells formed from the fertilized egg. completely inseparable make one embryo cell covered by another cell Causing it to not grow, but still “alive” because there is still blood to nourish
The study stated that “The conjuncts of the twins developed into the surviving girl’s frontal lobes. by enclosing another embryo in a neural plate
However, this is not the first time that the body’s owner has been saved from parasitic twins: in 1997, a parasitic twin was discovered in the abdomen of a 16-year-old Egyptian boy, and last November, Indian doctors brought Eight embryos were extracted from the gallbladder of a 21-day-old female fetus, with the size of the fetus ranging from 3-5 cm.
Source: Independent
