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Predictable microchimerism
I read in New Scientist recently that microchimerism occurs between previously born siblings and grandparents, not just the mother.
Do we know which parts of the genome are likely to be transferred? ...
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Is ovum + ovum fertilization possible for human?
In humans is it possible to fertilize a ovum with another ovum from the same female subject?
I already found some works in which the ovum is fertilized by a somatic cell (see e.g. this ), but I am ...
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How are the gene sequences of individual sperm and egg cells “randomized”?
What I mean by "randomized" is, in the place where an egg cell or sperm cell is made, what is the mechanism by which each one is not made identically? Though I am a layman, I'm pretty sure that if the ...
