Hidden Guests: Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism Is Redefining Human Identity
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Greystone Books, 2025
- Tapa dura
- Nuevo
Librería: Brook Bookstore On Demand, Napoli, NA, ItaliaBrook Bookstore On Demand
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- Título
- Hidden Guests: Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism Is Redefining Human Identity
- Autor
- Haslam, Bronwyn
- Editorial
- Greystone Books
- Año de publicación
- 2025
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Encuadernación de tapa dura
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 1778402666
- ISBN 13
- 9781778402661
- Peso del artículo
- 0,35 kilogramos
"[A] fascinating book. . . . [Barnéoud] ruminates on how microchimerism might change our understanding of ourselves."―Sam Kean, Wall Street Journal
What if some of your cells were not your own? What if they once belonged to someone else?
Part mind-bending medical mystery―part cutting-edge science―Hidden Guests uncovers the astonishing phenomenon of microchimerism: the presence of foreign cells inside our own bodies. The incredible story of how those cells got there―and what they do once they arrive―might change everything we know about the immune system, lineage, and identity.
We are all told the same story as children: that we grew from a single cell into a human, that all of our cells came from the first fertilized egg, and that we have one distinct genetic code. But scientists are beginning to challenge that story.
The discovery of microchimerism shows that not all our cells are our own―some of them migrated from other bodies. How did they get there? Scientists are still studying their journey, but today we know cells are exchanged in pregnancy, through transplants and blood transfusions, and possibly even through sex. But what does this mean for our daily lives―is it really such a big deal if someone else’s cell turns up in our bodies? The answer is, as author Lise Barnéoud shows in Hidden Guests, that the implications could be earth-shattering.
In Hidden Guests, Barnéoud interviews doctors, researchers, and medical experts at the forefront of microchimerism research. She interweaves their fascinating discoveries with the shocking human stories of microchimerism including:
- The story of the mother who gave birth to the genetic children of her sister … even though her sister had never been born.
- The story of the man whose DNA was found at a crime scene―only he was in prison at the time. It turned out that he had received a bone marrow transplant, and the DNA came from his donor―the actual offender.
- The story of a cancer survivor who discovered that the cells in his blood, saliva, hair, and even his semen were slowly being replaced by the cells of his organ donor
- The story of a woman whose children were nearly taken away after genetic testing showed she was not their mother―until she proved that their DNA came from a vanished twin whose cells she had absorbed in utero
Hidden Guests traces the history of this still emerging science while asking philosophical and probing questions about immunity, biology, evolution, parental testing, criminal forensics, and the concept of individual identity. Barnéoud makes the case for expanding our notions of both self and immunity: as ever-changing collectives of cells in relation, we are not unlike ecosystems. And like ecosystems, perhaps, the greater our diversity, the greater our resilience.
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Acerca del autor
Lise Barnéoud is a freelance science journalist who regularly contributes to Le Monde and Mediapart. In addition to Hidden Guests, she is the author of two books about vaccines, Immunisés? and Vaccins. In 2017 she won French Science Writer of the Year and was nominated for European Science Writer of the Year. Lise lives in France.
Olivia Campbell is a journalist and the New York Times bestselling author of Women in White Coats and Sisters in Science.
J. Lee Nelson, MD, published some of the first scientific studies on microchimerism in the 1990s. She heads the Nelson Lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, where her team investigates the health consequences of microchimerism.
Bronwyn Haslam is a Montreal-based translator with degrees in modern literature and languages and in cellular, molecular, and microbial biology. With Aleshia Jensen, she was a finalist for the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation and the 2023 Cole Foundation Prize for their translation of Mirion Malle’s This Is How I Disappear.
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