Can reprogramming our genes make us young again? A breakthrough in longevity research may be nearing its first human trials.

After two days of agony, she went to hospital, where a CT scan revealed a benign teratoma – a so-called "monster tumour" – roughly the size of a tennis ball. Shockingly, the mass had grown a ...

A 17-year-old girl’s severe abdominal pain was diagnosed to be a monster tumour that was growing teeth and organs. Nesli Meir had a recurrent sharp pain in her lower right abdomen for some time, which ...

Photo / 123rf Can reprogramming our genes make us young again? A breakthrough in longevity research may be nearing its first human trials. For those hoping to cure death, and they are legion, a 2016 ...

There is also the knowledge that foetus in foetu maybe a developmental anomaly rather than a true twin pregnancy, and what is considered a parasitic twin may actually be a teratoma, a tumour with ...

Pure seminoma means that there are no teratoma cells in the tumour. You will have normal Alpha fetoprotein (AFP) marker levels if you have pure seminoma. There are two categories of outlook for pure ...

Nesli Meir had a recurrent sharp pain in her lower right abdomen for some time, which was ignored. But a later CT scan revealed a benign teratoma—a monster tumour that was the size of a tennis ball.

As to what causes fetus-in-fetu, one theory is that it's 'a highly differentiated form of a teratoma (an abnormal collection of cells)', says ISUOG. Another theory is the parasitic twins. Cleveland ...

I’m going to have to continue relying on people.” When she was just three years old, Beka suffered from a rare form of spinal cancer, sacrococcygeal teratoma, and had to go through four rounds of ...