ACTIVITY 1

Bruno

Without something called vestibular system. The vestibular system is what is keeping him upright, but it also talks to your brain to your eyes, so even he is moving there, he is actually seeing the world in a sort of completely semless, stable fashion. Really extraordinary.

Polly, Jessica, Elly and Georgie

Incredibly rare from a single egg one set of instructions that should have built a single, but in their case, it led to 4 genetically identical sisters. 64 million to one, the odds of the pregnancy. Single egg and single sperm . soon after, two sets of genetic instruction, half from each parent,combined to create a unique genetic code for on human being. Cell divided and divided again. Until around day 5 when there would been a few hundred interconnected cells it was then that the girls’ story dramatically departed from ours. Events like this are so unusual that doctors really ca’t really explain how they happen. One suggestion is the vital communication between cells broke down. And so, four distinct clups of cells began to behave independently from each other .and against all the odds, each went on to build a separate human being. They like each other.

Mr. Kamatura

90 years old at that time. Still remember his past. Considering life expectancy around here is less than 60,that is very impressive age to reach and he absolutely spry, bright and he tells me the only thing that’s wrong with him is pain in one of his toes. Now, the reason for his long and prosperous life, there are lots of possible explanations, but one may well be what happened to him in his mother’s womb within days of his being conceived. In fact, the secret to Mr Kamatura’s longevity may be down to the time of year he was conceived.

Cheryl

One of a tiny handful of people who was born without fingerprints. Just a few small creases on the end of her fingers. Cheryl’s condition is known as immigration delay disease. She warked as a flight attendant and after flight attendant school,

Johnny & Gaudelin

When 24 year old Johnny was born , his parents thought he was female. They named him Felicita and raised him as a girl. He never bother to play with a girl. He want to play with the boy. Johnny looked like a girl because in the womb, his body hadn’t produced the kind of testosterone needed to form male genitals. He was born without a penis. 2 years old. She has a Y-chromosome that should, in the womb, have made her into a boy. Them lack the enzyme that produces dihydrotestosterone. So, they couldn’t grow a penis in the womb. But extraordinary enough, they can do so later in life. Normally, it is an extremely rare condition. But in this village, it’s so common, it’s completely accepted.

Carla (9 years old)

Showing signs for some time that she is not actually a girl. Carla is approaching puberty. A time when males get another surge of testosterone. She is on the brink of growing a penis because this time, Carla doesn’t need the dihyrotetosterone that she cannot make. She like Johnny, is known as a “Guevedoce”, which literally means. “penis at 12”. Her whole life is about to change. She like beingb short hair. Carla’s transition to boyhood will be made easier because there is another Guevedoce in the family. Her cousin, Catherine. He officially became a boy at 11. But hasn’t changed his name.

Oliver

Oliver’s face didn’t fully come together. He was born 4 weeks ago with a cleft lip. Before he was born, Oliver’s parents, Kerry and Dave, knew he was going to be different. At the 20 week scan. She spotted it pretty quickly. Now, there are hundreds of different genes that go together to form a human face. And in some cases of cleft lip and palate, you can point to the particular gene and say it’s that one. But not in the case of little Oliver. He can as a complete surprise and there is absolutely no family history, which would suggest that his cleft lip is a result of a random genetic mutation. Felicity Mehandale is preparing to operate on his lip. Cleft lips and cleft palates are actually the most common congebital condition that we see. So, they give us a huge amount of information about how our human faces form. Now he was 3 month years old ready to surgery. If his lip didn’t repair the gap in his lip would let his gum dry out. He’d look different and importantly, when he started to say things like, “papa” and “baba”, he’d have a little bit of air leaking through his lip and it would make it a little bit more difficult for him to communicate the way maybe we take for granted. After surgery.

Boxer Tom Stalker

One of the 10% that fovours the left. He has to live world skewd to the right. In 2012, he captained Britiain’s most successful ever Olympic team.this might offer a clue to why natural selection hasn’t bred out left-handedness. We can be confident that the proportion of left-handers hasn’t changed for 10000years, because 10% tools archaeologists uncover are for lefties. It seems plausible that, in the past, whwn battles between warring tribes were fought hand-to-hand, left-handers like Tom would have had an advantage. So they were more likely to survive a fight and pass their trait on to another generation. Being a boxer has given me discipline, it’s given him self-respect.

Nassoro kasim (28 year old)

Albino. No melanin. He should have dark skin but he has a genetic condition which means most of his melanocytes are unable to make melanin. The only place he produces the pigment is in the occasional mole. So he has very little protection from the sun. he from Tanzania and works part-time washing cars, but his real passion is football.

Joanne Chapman

Jo Chapman was diagnosed with an aggressive form of blood cancer. It was about middle of September and I started to feel quite unwell. I thought I had a run of the mill virus, hot sweats, achy. It was our daughter’s birthday, but I couldn’t even stand up to watch her open any of her party presents and that’s really unusual. Later that evening, Jo was diagnosed with Leukaemia. Jo’s best chance is bone marrow transplant from a mached donor. But this is tricky because of another unique part of us that develops in the womb. Hoping for a donor. Fortunately, a worldwide HLA database of donors is bringing hope to people like Jo. I’m getting ready for a bone marrow transplant tomorrow. But I feel incredibly humble. I can’t believe there is such a person that exists out there. He’s a 22-year-old male. He is almost ten out of ten fully matched. He’s been referred to me almost like a perfect twin. I’m guessing we look nothing like each other. It’s seven months since Jo was diagnosed with cancer. Blood stem cells harvested from the bone marrow of Jo’s donor have arrived at the Royal Marsden, where she’s being treated. The stem cells have come into my body. It will apparently go round my bloodstream a couple of times and then it’s got like a homing sensor and it will actually gravitate towards my bone marrow, which is what I need it to do. Finding a close match has increased Jo’s chances of recovery, although the success of any transplant is by no means guaranteed.

Laird Hamilton

Laird Hamilton is a big-wave surfer. He has an appetite for risk that may have been shaped by what happened to him before he was born. The length of my ring finger and the length of my index finger are substantially different. Which, I guess, leads to a lot of my problems.

Mattie/ Mattheus

Seven-year-old Mattie looks like a typical girl.
But she’s in a boy’s body. No-one knows why people like Mattie feel the way they do. There are plenty of theories. The biological explanation I find most convincing is that although testosterone made her body male, it didn’t reach key parts of her brain. A chained gene may have affected critical testosterone receptors. Which could explain why Mattie feels female. By the age of four, Mattie had already convinced her parents that he was a she. She changed her name, and by the time she started school, she was officially a girl.

Harrison (23 weeks)

Without fingernails, eyeslids sealed shut. Not sure he can see or not. Neurons in his brain are not fully developed.

Janelly Martinez-Amador

Born without the ability to make bones. Mum now after 3 to 4 weeks after her born because she wasn’t growing, wasn’t putting on weight. She had no ribs to support breathing, no skull to protect her brain and was unable to move her own body. Compare to x-ray of 18 month old child Experimental drug therapy. After 6 month they x-ray her the drug had replaced the missing protein and her body couldn’t produce.

Joey

Can remember his past. Extraordinary memory. If you ask what happen in some date he can tell you what did happen in that days.

Herrol

Colour blind. What he see is black and white colour.
He can see even in the dark in night like a camera monochrome-vision.

Vincent

His mum having a prenatal stress. When there are no electronic in home. How he learn, the way he play are different than other people. He have many allergies.
Have a problem with language for that he having a therapist for 7 years. Cortisol caused.

Freediver.
Can hold her breath 5 minutes in water.
Born premature.