Human Chimerism: A Guide to Becoming Two People at Once
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It's all in the DNA.
It's all in the DNA.
A ciência tem revelado cada vez mais que a determinação sexual de uma pessoa é um processo biológico bem mais complexo do que…
Let Mother's Day be a chance to ruminate on how pregnancy fiddles with moms' minds The post Moms: Your Kids Hijacked Your Brain…
The old saying that a woman has “men on the brain” can be accurately supplanted by saying that many women have men IN the brain.
In 1893, a German scientist made a striking discovery: Cells from a fetus hide out in a mother's body after birth. Scientists…
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Biology concepts – chimeras, microchimerism, autoimmunity, tolerance, self, rejection, graft vs. host disease, HLA, Rh…
by Michelle Stein posted in Mom Stories Science has proven that motherhood changes you forever -- even down to the cellular…
GRAVIDANZA E DINTORNI – Durante la gravidanza, mamma e bambino non solo si scambiano sostanze chimiche e un oceano di emozioni…
In pregnancy, women are shape-shifters, their bellies waxing like the moon. After delivery, they hold another kind of magic…
Opowiadałam wam o tym, że komórki dawcy mogą po allotransplantacji przeistoczyć się w komórki twórcze nabłonka i kolonizować jamę…
Photo via Flickr / CC There are always more people looking to receive organs than there are people looking to donate them…
Having children changes your life, your priorities and, for mothers, possibly even your brain. In pregnant women, fetal cells …
Image courtesy of David Castillo Dominici /FreeDigitalPhotos.netMost mothers would say their kids are always in their hearts…
Researchers, led by William Chan, currently at the University of Alberta, have found fetal cells in the brains of mothers. Yes…
Gene found on Y chromosome detected in females brains. A recent Plos One article found expression of a male-specific gene in a…
Gene found on Y chromosome detected in females brains. A recent Plos One article found expression of a male-specific gene in a…
Without words to mean what we say, how do we say what we mean? In her last post, our guest blogger Rebecca Bollard discussed…
A new report ‘Dementia in Australia‘ has been published under a Creative Commons License 3.0. The report is very detailed and…
Fetal cells remain in moms — that isn’t news. But the discovery of fetal DNA in women’s brains is. (credit: Jay Shendure lab) “So…
When does a genetic donor become a biological parent and how many biological parents are too many? In this post, our guest…
Não, isso não é exatamente uma metáfora, mas a constatação que DNA de células masculinas, muito provavelmente advindos de um…
Human fetus in amniotic…
Some women always have men on the brain. And some women literally have men in their brains. A new study in PloS ONE found that…
Some women always have men on the brain. And some women literally have men in their brains. A new study in PloS ONE found that…
Image: Gabriela Pinto/Flickr By Melissa Lee Phillips…
For decades after a woman has carried a male child in her womb or shared her mother's womb with a brother, she carries a faint…