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    • Professor John Hopper

    Director, Twins Research Australia; NHMRC Australia Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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    Health & Medicine

    Predicting cancer risk from mammograms could revolutionise screening

    Two new mammogram imaging techniques could revolutionise breast screening by predicting each woman’s cancer risk

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    Health & Medicine

    Supporting families with twin babies…or more

    The number of families having multiple babies – like twins, triplets or more – has doubled in the last 40 years, but the support and advice provided to those families needs to catch up

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    Health & Medicine

    5 discoveries we can thank twins for

    Thirty-five years of twin research have led to incredible insights into how the environment and our genes impact our health

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    Health & Medicine

    A chip off the DNA block

    Scientists identify genetic markers that can help fight cancer before it begins

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