Author Lise Barnéoud on the bizarre and provoking world of microchimerism — when cells from one person live in another, genetically distinct individual
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Over a century ago, German pathologist Georg Schmorl documented a strange phenomenon: cells from fetuses that had moved into the mother during pregnancy. He had discovered microchimerism — where the cells from one individual move into another and set up shop. In the past few decades, scientists' understanding of microchimerism has grown, thanks to technological advances. And the implications are wild. Cells transferred during pregnancy could mean you have cells from your grandmother living insid
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