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Bizarre blip: Cases of fetuses with flipped organs quadrupled in China (arstechnica.com)

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[–] kale 3 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?

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