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Identical twins have long been researchers' favourite guinea pigs because they hold the key to answering one of the greatest scientific questions of our time: nature, or nurture? World-renowned genetic epidemiologist Dr. Tim Spector recently found out that by probing twins' differences, rather than their similarities, we can learn how the environment and heredity interact to actually change our genes! Research on epigenetics could help solve medical...
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Twins are rare, occurring in about 1 percent of all pregnancies. Of that number, 30 percent are identical twins. The other 70 percent are nonidentical, or fraternal, twins. A single baby, identical twins, and fraternal twins differ from one another in their development. With a single baby, when fertilization occurs the egg cell is fertilized by a single sperm cell to form a zygote. Over the next few days, the fertilized egg cell divides repeatedly...
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One in every 100,000 sets of twins is born joined together. Some will be separated by complex, often risky surgical procedures. But what causes twins to be born this way? What can doctors do to help them? And what are the prospects for those who have no option but to spend their lives joined together? Filmed in the United States, South Africa, Russia, and Poland, this documentary tells the story of some of the most dramatic recent separations of conjoined...
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The moment the Grace family moves into the dilapidated Spiderwick Estate, strange things begin to happen. Jared, a curious, adventurous boy, quickly seeks out and finds the hidden laboratory of his great great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. He unleashes a mysterious force when he locates a field guide full of the secrets of the magical creatures that inhabit the forest surrounding the mansion. His twin brother Simon is calm and reserved but is rapidly drawn...
9) Twitches
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Twin girls, separated at birth, find each other on their 21st birthday. They must learn to use their magical powers to fight the evil force of Darkness and save Coventry - the magical world where they were born.
11) Twitches too
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Now that "twin witches" Alex and Camryn know the truth about their royal birth, it's time for the girls to learn about each other and how to use their magical powers. While Alex wants to focus on college and having a semi-normal life, Camryn is all about the glamour, gowns and tiaras. But their dreams must be set aside when destiny calls again. A new evil threatens the people of Coventry, and the girls discover that their father, Aron, may still be...
14) Old dogs
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Dan and Charlie are two best friends who, together, have built a successful marketing empire, but have somehow managed to avoid ever really grown up. Their lives have been turned upside down when they are charged with the care of seven-year-old twins while on the verge of a big business deal. The clueless bachelors stumble in their efforts, leading to one debacle after another, with a gorilla and some pecking penguins. Dan and Charlie learn as much...
15) The parent trap
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"Parent trap": Susan and Sharon are identical twins that are separated by birth. Once they realize who they are, they make a plan to switch place with the high hopes of getting their parents back together again. "Parent trap II": Now grown up, Sharon is a single mom whose daughter meets Mary and the girls turn into scheming matchmakers.
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Simon's twin brother, Sedrick, seizes control of Jurassic World and installs an artificial intelligence system named ₁O.O.P.S.I., turning Jurassic World against all humans! Owen's team works frantically to keep everyone safe while trying to figure a way to shut OOPSI down. Meanwhile, Dr. Wu has been working on two eggs containing a new, more aggressive dinosaur but Robbie, Simon's intern, makes off with the dinosaur eggs.
17) Life is sweet
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An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay about. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
19) Big business
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Comedy about two sets of identical twins who are mismatched at birth, and forty years later their paths cross in Manhattan at New York's Plaza Hotel.
20) The identical
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A redemptive movie about a young man, the son of a preacher, who rejects his father's desire for him to join the ministry and instead embarks on a career as a rock singer. As he struggles to pursue his dream and rise to stardom, he finds love, pain, success and failure, and ultimately uncovers a hidden family secret that reveals who he really is. It's a captivating story about a family restored, and a life discovered.