ISSN: 2652-5518By Emily Callander, Lucas Calais-Ferreira, Haylee Fox, Sue Malta, John Hopper Summary Medical advancements and increasing age at first pregnancy have contributed to a worldwide increase in multiple births. However, there is very little information available about the costs associated with having more than one baby at a time, and the potential financial impact […]
Eligibility: All adult twins currently living in Australia. This study aims to understand why and how people in Australia access healthcare services and professionals. We’re particularly interested in understanding reasons why, or why not, individuals participate in available screening programs. By studying twins, we can see whether these behaviours are found in families, and what […]
Twins Research Australia is unique – we are the only dedicated national facility in Australia bringing twins and researchers together for vital health research to not only benefit the health of twins but all Australians. There is no more powerful way to investigate genetic and environmental influences on health and disease than twin research. It […]
An international group of researchers has made ground-breaking discoveries into the origins of identical twins. “Identical twins are considered a ‘miracle’ of nature and we’ve not fully understood the biological processes that lead to their formation,” Deputy Director of Twins Research Australia, Professor Jeff Craig said. Identical twins originate from one egg cell that splits […]
Melbourne identical twins Raie Moss and Judy Kohn are sharing their breast cancer journey to encourage other twins to join a major new Australian study aiming to identify factors in early life that may predict risk of breast cancer. Six years after Judy was diagnosed with breast cancer at 59 in 2013, her identical twin […]
A new study of twins and triplets shows how our close social relationships are vital in how we cope with the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study involved over 3500 adult twins and triplets from across Australia at the height of initial social lockdown measures. “We thank the twins and triplets who made this […]
Multiple-birth experts from around the world have identified where urgent research is needed to improve health outcomes for twins, triplets and higher-order multiples. In a world-first initiative, supported by Twins Research Australia, a paper published today outlines the top 10 global research priorities for multiple-birth health and how these priorities were chosen from wide-ranging suggestions across 31 […]
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