Jul 21, 2024
Summary:
Exomphalos, or omphalocoele, is a congenital condition where a baby's abdominal organs develop outside the body through the umbilical cord, affecting about 1 in 5000 births, with higher rates in multiple pregnancies (e.g. twins, triplets). It forms between the 6th-10th week of gestation and can be classified...
Jul 6, 2024
Genetic imprinting is a normal process that usually happens in a small number of genes where one copy of the gene is always “silenced” or not expressed. An imprinting “disorder” is where there’s an issue with this process - either with how the gene is silenced or the right copy is silenced but there’s a...