Posted on 01/05/2024 1:17:11 PM PST by Red Badger
Some 24 years ago, Diana Bianchi peered into a microscope at a piece of human thyroid and saw something that instantly gave her goosebumps. The sample had come from a woman who was chromosomally XX. But through the lens, Bianchi saw the unmistakable glimmer of Y chromosomes—dozens and dozens of them. “Clearly,” Bianchi told me, “part of her thyroid was entirely male.”
The reason, Bianchi suspected, was pregnancy. Years ago, the patient had carried a male embryo, whose cells had at some point wandered out of the womb. They’d ended up in his mother’s thyroid—and, almost certainly, a bunch of other organs too—and taken on the identities and functions of the female cells that surrounded them so they could work in synchrony. Bianchi, now the director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, was astonished: “Her thyroid had been entirely remodeled by her son’s cells,” she said.
The woman’s case wasn’t a one-off. Just about every time an embryo implants and begins to grow, it dispatches bits of itself into the body housing it. The depositions begin at least as early as four or five weeks into gestation. And they settle into just about every sliver of our anatomy where scientists have checked—the heart, the lungs, the breast, the colon, the kidney, the liver, the brain. From there, the cells might linger, grow, and divide for decades, or even, as many scientists suspect, for a lifetime, assimilating into the person that conceived them. They can almost be thought of as evolution’s original organ transplant, J. Lee Nelson, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, told me. Microchimerism may be the most common way in which genetically identical cells mature and develop inside two bodies at once.
These cross-generational transfers are bidirectional.
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The Atlantic…that liberal rag never has an agenda. See? See? A woman has Y chromosomes! Gender is fluid!
An aspect of genetics I had not heard of before. Thanks for the post.
A mother’s love is like no other.
“””Bianchi saw the unmistakable glimmer of Y chromosomes—dozens and dozens of them. “Clearly,” Bianchi told me, “part of her thyroid was entirely male.””””
OMG!!!! We are all multi-sexual humans. If the Atlantic says so it has to be true!!!!
There are also chimera people with two sets of DNA............
Oh my god real Lady Ballers.
So Mom has her son’s Y chromosome, which he got from his Dad. It’s that heterosexual intercourse thingy, man...ain’t natural... I mean, it’s almost as if two people coupling to have children have made some sort of permanent connection or something.
Adam’s rib, still at work.
So it seems in this case.
Yeah I immediately got the vibe, “ok I see where they’re going with this”
I wonder if this fresh genes contribute to women outlining men...? This certainly can be studied easily with existing statistics.
I saw this one on House, M.D.
It would seem that microchimerism should be looked into with regard to some medical issues a woman only seems to obtain after pregnancy.
Wait til the Monkey/simian DNA residues from shoddy Covid-19 gene therapy experiments,(”vaccines”) kicks in.
Thanks for posting a fascinating read. (even for The Atlantic). Reading it reinforces how God works in mysterious ways.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Psalm 139:14
My daughter has 3 sons, and really wanted a daughter. When she was pregnant with her 4th child, she did a genetic test that was supposed to show the sex of the fetus (out of curiosity; she had no thought of terminating her pregnancy whatsoever!). She was disappointed but resigned to raise another boy when the test results indicated male. She was ecstatic when the ultrasound revealed her daughter. She was told the false test results reflected the fact she had carried her 3 sons.
Chimerism is probably much more common than most people think. It could result from pregnancy but also from absorption of a twin in utero. There are possibly other causes. It could explain cases of homosexuality and transsexuality.
I will enjoy informing my ex that bits of my genetic material are still living inside her.
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