Some advances in science take longer to establish than others, especially when they go against dogma. But when they succeed, all research benefits, pushing experts to imagine hypotheses previously thought impossible. This story is told by independent science journalist Liz Barnaud in a beautifully titled book Deviating cells.
The dogma being questioned here is that the DNA we carry in each of our cells is absolutely unique to us. However, each of us has foreign cells in our body, which specialists call microchimeras, and whose DNA is not our own, explains Liz Barneau. These cells are a very minority, one in a hundred thousand and one in a million. But they can have a significant impact.
How did these foreign cells manage to integrate into our bodies and, above all, how did they…
Source: Le Figaro
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