A Pregnancy Souvenir: Cells That Are Not Your Own (Published 2015)

Recently, a team of pathologists at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands carried out an experiment that might seem doomed to failure. They collected tissue from 26 women who had died during or just after pregnancy. All of them had been carrying sons. The pathologists then stained the samples to check for Y chromosomes. Essentially, the scientists were looking for male cells in femal

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母親の体には胎児の細胞が混じっていて、何らかの働きをしているのではないか、という話。