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[–] kale@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The typical cause of this is a biomarker sticks to one side of an embryo, marking it as left (or right, I don't remember), but a twin embryo that is too close will see that marker on the other side and develop mirror imaged to the first embryo, right?