They might share the same DNA and cramped living space, but as these images reveal, life is anything but identical for unborn twins.

This unprecedented glimpse into their inner world is afforded through a recently developed form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which is being turned on twins for the first time.

Whereas conventional MRI takes snapshots of thin slices of the body as it penetrates through it, so-called cinematic-MRI takes repeated images of the same slice, then stitches them together to create a videoMovie Camera. This means that a moving structure such as a fetus – or several fetuses – can be visualised in unprecedented detail.

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Read more at NewScientist.

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