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Twins fight for space in womb?
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London researchers release incredible video
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- Date Dec 3, 2012
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We have some you know an incredible video some say it may be evidence.
Of a sibling rivalry starting even before birth.
Scientists using a new advance MRI scan capturing this never before seen footage of twins appearing to fight it out inside the womb.
A doctor Steven garner as with new York Methodist hospital and with me now on good morning dew dot nice to -- you have here is the image show us what we should be focused.
Got two guys one is a big guy -- little guys here's the big guy.
And you could see he -- was over the little guy.
And what he -- -- he punches -- of his arms in his knees his his means and his this guy's name is you.
You punch is the guy that looks like he's punching him but looks like realize you -- I -- -- a bunch of questions for anybody think this is pretty obvious at home here's one.
And here is the other are right and just down here these are where the knees are -- -- and adversaries here every day in the centers on here with this sharing and giving them nutrition from the same source.
But they develop blood cells that sending all the blood from the little -- to the big -- and that's -- -- -- little is there evidence that they're fighting or is is that something we can determine.
You think that but that you're making that up in your mind you know because it looks like people of fighting actually beginning aggravated could be but it memorized noise itself -- -- -- sound.
But when -- when something hits one of them.
They just all of them is thought to do what this means that just the normal thing we see them we do all the -- all the time the baby doesn't like the sound mountain city of -- book in your hand.
Why did this the reason you brought that is why -- -- to show how this is done they take multiple little slices and then number Coney Island to going there in the due to -- -- You -- -- like a little cartoon and it makes it look like -- moving.
It's not really moving but it gives -- that impression that it's moving so so this 32 clip that was compiled by putting.
Image after image after MRI and -- an ingenious thing right because you can use this to study -- says is developing.
But the only thing is this a -- lot of parents -- let me -- -- much -- -- shorts months for his birthday we don't know if necessary if we're not sure you have the MRI just all right.
So if parents are rushing to go out to do this I would hold back.
Because we've got to wait about ten years out -- -- of this is really sort of process that's a good point to you say condition called TTT that's right that's what they're trying to.
Determine here this is right there looking to -- is called twin to twin transfusion syndrome.
And that's where the blood goes from one twin to another it's not supposed to with a built this abnormal blood vessels that should have been blocked.
And this guy became smoke -- -- no blood in the sky became big because he's got too much -- and make it did the key is here that they -- -- them vertically through the little -- -- got to do is trying to prepare for the delivery and immediate care -- the kid has developed or not bed not a -- device kind of ingenious but not some you -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --