I can’t Google this up, so I can’t provide a link. But maybe someone here heard the same story and can link to it.
On the radio (local NPR station) recently I heard a story about parents who had identical twins.
Before the birth, they were told one of their sons would be stillborn. But the sick baby lived for a little while. They got to hold him. But he never made it out of the hospital. Heartbreaking. I can’t imagine how much that hurts.
They donated their son for science. And years later they traveled around the country to meet the people who studied and learned from his remains. It’s a beautiful story about science and death and making the most our time on Earth.
But on topic – part of the research was comparing the surviving boy’s DNA to his brother’s. Why did one make it and one not? And the number that sticks in my memory is they found 1,000 differences.
Anyway, long story short – does anyone else remember the recent public radio story about the parents’ quest to follow their little boy’s influence on medical research?