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Britain’s Brainiest Family is . . . .

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. . . . Black and Has 9-Year-Old

High School-Bound Twins

Paula and Peter Imafidon are just like any other 9-year-olds. They love laughing, playing on the computer and fighting with each other. What sets these twins apart from their peers, though, is that they are, hands down, prodigies who are about to enter high school and make British history as the youngest to do so.

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The precocious London-based tykes, known as the “Wonder Twins,” floored academics a year ago when they aced University of Cambridge’s advanced mathematics exam. They are the youngest students to ever pass the test.

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The future little scholars’ father, Chris, and mother, Ann, immigrated to Britain from

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Dr Patrice Smith ‏– Daughter of the Soil

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Jamaican-born scientist making strides in nerve research

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Who would have thought that a little girl from Darliston in Westmoreland would turn out to be a First World scientist who may have discovered a new way to repair damaged nerves?

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Now living in Canada, Jamaican-born Dr Patrice Smith and her colleagues at Harvard have discovered a way to repair damaged nerves by allowing the adult brain to respond to repair signals that are induced after injury.

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Dr Smith explained to Flair in an interview, that as we get older, we

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