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Mariah Carey delivers twins

LOS ANGELES: Pop diva Mariah Carey has become a mother on her third wedding anniversary on Sunday after giving birth to twins,a girl and a boy. The 41-year-old and husband Nick Cannon welcomed the twins at an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles,reported People magazine online. Careys representative,Cindi Berger,confirmed the twins arrival and told reporters that the baby girl was born first and the couple has not named the children yet.

Cloned follicles to cure baldness?

MELBOURNE: Cloned hair follicles may provide a new cure for baldness,say scientists. In what might become the most effective permanent treatment for the condition,several research teams around the world have successfully cloned human hair follicles though only in limited amounts. Though human trials are yet to be held,but the cloned follicles have been successfully implanted into soles of the feet of laboratory rodents,giving hair-loss sufferers a ray of hope that a remedy is within reach. Now,the challenge for the scientists is to increase the number of follicles that can be cloned from a single hair taken from a patients scalp.