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A connection. at the center for neuropathology at look vic maximillian university in munich paris carr heads to a diagnostic lab to collect samples of brain tissue from two patients. the first comes from a patient who was still in the early stages of the disease when the microbe leo was still active. but were they destroying plaques. the second sample comes from a patient who had the aggressive form of alzheimer's here the micro clio were defective. the researchers suspect the patient's defective immune cells had not been devouring plucks. smear a periscope stains the samples the micro clear a...

Here is cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta with more on this indiana family's incredible journey. >> what matters in the end is that they love each other. >> when we started the story, none of us knew how it was going to end. >> when we decided to share our story, i did it with the intention of knowing that every day would be a miracle. >> i could almost keep them like this right now. because they're so perfect. >> they're beautiful. they are perfect. >> conjoined twins are exceedingly rare. only happening in one out of every 200,000 live births. twins joined at the head or cra...

The age of two if not separated. but separating them is risky and tedious. they share 5 to 7 centimeters of brain tissue. and for parents, the decision was obvious and brought them to dr. including this dramatic 27-hour operation where the boys went from being one to two. and those moments continued, full of surprise, wonder, joy and, yes, miracles. the boys seeing each other for the first time, nicole holding her babies for the first time. jaden biking and aniya starting to talk. after two years nicole and christian decided to leave new york, the city they adopted to

They're perfect. >> conjoined twins are exceedingly rare, only happening in 1 out of 200,000 live births. twins joined at the head are even more uncommon. 80% of twins joined at the head die at the age of two if not separated. they share 5 to 7 centimeters of brain tissue, and for the parents, the decision was obvious and brought them to dr. james goodrich. from the beginning, the mcdonald's invited us into every aspect of our lives, including this dramatic 27 hour operation where the boys went from being one to two. and those moments continued, full of surprise, wonder, joy and, yes, miracles...

Hope for here is that it's your daughter, but she's -- >> she's hurt, yes. >> -- pretty seriously hurt. >> mm-hmm. >> for the chapas, the wait was excruciating. and then their daughter returned with the news they had been praying for. >> she comes back down, she tells me, "mom, it's grace." family and friends took turns at kristene's bedside, wondering if she would ever regain consciousness. >> i was talking to her, telling her that i was there, you know, that we loved her, you know. >> how'd she look? >> it was bad. it was so bad that you couldn't even -- you didn't know it was her. >> the bu...