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Your Child’s DNA Is Hiding Inside Your Brain — And Scientists Finally Know Why
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Your Child’s DNA Is Hiding Inside Your Brain - And Scientists Finally Know Why
In 2026, a team at UT Southwestern Medical Center published a bombshell paper in Cell that completely rewrites the story of microchimerism. For decades, textbooks said whole fetal cells migrate across the placenta and hide out in the mother’s body for decades. But that theory had a massive hole: why didn’t the…