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International group of scientists from America, Sweden and Netherlands has made an unusual opening - monoovular twins are not absolutely identical, they have distinctions at a genetic level.

“In spite of the fact, that as a whole genomes of monoovular twins are very close, there are small distinctions in almost all the cases”, - inform heads of the research Yang Dumansky and Karl Bruder.

Earlier scientists believed, that if one of monoovular twins fell serious ill, and the other remained healthy, it happened under the influence of an environment. Now experts have found out, that it not so.

Researchers have found out, that one of two twins may have certain fragment of DNA, while the other doesn’t have it.

Though experts mark also that fact, that somatic cells are really subject to influence of an environment, therefore it is impossible to assert confidently that distinctions are congenital.

19 million children in EU live in the families which an income is below living wage.
Such are the results, published in the new Report on the social security, made on demand of the Eurocommission.

Poland and Italy have shown the worst results - every fourth child live there in poverty.

About half of these children grow with only one of parents, and also in large families.

In the best situation is in Denmark and on the Cyprus.

Even in one of the most advanced EU countries - in Germany, children’s poverty reaches 12 %.

The main task of politicians, declare Eurocommissioners, is creation of access to education for children from poor families.

In America levels of premature births steadily increase, mark experts.

Coefficients of premature births have considerably increased in the USA, since 2005. An intensive increase in these levels for the last year emphasizes urgent need in development of effectual measures on prevention of premature birth risks, are sure experts of the research center March of Dimes. Physicians remind, that prematurely born babies frequently die during the first month of their life, and the rest children are at risk of respiratory disorders, physiologic jaundice, slow brain development and difficulties of feeding.

According to the American National center of health statistics, the percentage of babies who have been given birth earlier than 37 weeks continues to increase diligently. Now in the USA more than 525 thousand children (12,7 %) were born before the put term. By the end of this year, by estimation, this level achieve 12,8 %, and 543 thousand kids will face certain problems of physical and intellectual development. Since 1990 the level of premature birth in the country has increased for 20 %, have fixed the American researchers. In their opinion, such parameters obviously speak about serious reproductive crisis of demography. Besides, in 2005 high level of premature births cost for the national public health services 26 billion dollars. Medical expenses for prematurely born children are approximately 10 times more, than for healthy kids.

Girls are more skilled on computers - is said in the results of the research, conducted by Tesco Computers, informs BBC News. Diffident in front of computers are 6 percent of girls and 10 percent of boys.
By seven years 73 percent of girls can use search machines, and 62 - edit documents.

About 70% of teenagers confidently create a profile in a social network, 59% can download music, and 35% - to edit photos.

Researchers have found out, than many parents feel uncertainty working with the computer. 57% of parents ask their children for an advice, and only 40% of adult respondents consider, that they are the most advanced users in the family.

Passive smoking at a very young age considerably increases risk of development of food and respiratory allergy later, inform Swedish researchers in an article published in magazine Thorax.

As it appeared, smoking during pregnancy did not influence on atopic sensitization of babies (an initial stage of allergy), whereas babies whose mothers smoked at their presence, already in the age of 2 months had twice high probability of development of allergy to cat’s wool (antibody Е in their blood twice more often jointed allergen of cat’s wool), and in the age of 4 years had 1,5 times higher probability of food allergy, inform Eva Lannero (Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm) and her colleagues.