Twins Adopted To Different Parents Didn’t Know About Each Other Until Now

The Research Angle

It was a unique opportunity — to touch one another “in the flesh” and to experience for the first time what it was like to have a sibling after feeling like each was alone for so long. It was also a new chance for research to test theories and study all the amazing realities of a set of fraternal twins who’d been separated for so long and had even been brought across continents to reunite.

The Twin Center studies how genes and environment affect development, so can you think of a better set of test subjects? That brief encounter offered up a wealth of data and insight that will likely inspire and inform further study by Dr. Segal and others in the field.