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Jad Abumrad

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Gray's Donation

where researchers were studying the disease that killed Thomas, anencephaly.

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Gray's Donation

She says they walked in.

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Gray's Donation

They met all these different researchers who all seemed really excited about her twins' blood samples.

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Gray's Donation

After they all took the tour, one of the researchers even told them that they had compared Thomas' blood to Callum's.

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Gray's Donation

That's so interesting.

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Gray's Donation

So they began identical, but then somehow in utero, a thousand little changes crept up between them.

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Gray's Donation

It's possible that a few of those changes might one day explain the disease.

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Gray's Donation

Yeah, visit two sort of kicked butt.

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Gray's Donation

She's on a roll here.

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Gray's Donation

So after visit two, they got in the car, drove down the street to this place called Cydonet, which is where Thomas's liver ended up.

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Gray's Donation

They went in, again, got a tour.

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Gray's Donation

The whole thing.

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Gray's Donation

The researchers then tell her that they had a little issue with Thomas's liver.

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But then they told her that they were able to use it in an experiment.

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Okay, half a rose there.

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Half a rose, yeah.

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And she says at one point as they were being walked around the place...

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Gray's Donation

Now, Arupa Ganguly, just to switch to her for a second, she studies a kind of cancer of the eye called retinal blastoma, which happens almost exclusively in children.