Researchers looked at brain tissue from children with severe epilepsy and found squatters: cells carrying their mother's DNA.
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Researchers looked at brain tissue from children with severe epilepsy and found squatters: cells carrying their mother's DNA. A second dataset turned up the same signature in a man in his 90s. Nobody's figured out yet whether the cells are helping, hurting, or just along for the ride. Read more at YGBFKM and sign up for our newsletter for a weekly summary of weird science.
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