In 1893, Georg Schmorl, a pathologist at the University of Leipzig, made an astonishing discovery during his studies of eclampsia, a serious complication of pregnancy. At the time, eclampsia was one ...

Maternal microchimerism refers to the persistence of a small but significant population of maternal cells within the offspring following pregnancy. These cells, transferred naturally during gestation, ...

My children were conceived using donated eggs, so you would be forgiven for assuming we share no genetic material. Yet science has proved this isn’t entirely true. We now know that during pregnancy, ...