Baby with two faces

Genetic Diseases, Genetic News, DNA

In a northern Indian village, a baby girl born with two faces is being worshiped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess.

The little girl, Lali, apparently has an extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, where a single head has two faces. Except for her ears, all of Lali’s facial features are duplicated — she has two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes. Despite her obvious facial malformations, Lali is doing fine. (Read CNN story)

Katie @ April 9, 2008