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Friday, September 8, 2006 4:27 AM

CYBERSNARK


This is too cool not to share.

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2315693&page=1

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"In her blood, she was one person, but in other tissues, she had evidence of being a fusion of two individuals," Uhl said.

It's a rare condition called chimerism, with only 30 documented cases worldwide. In Greek mythology, "chimera" means a monster: part goat, part lion, part snake.

In human biology, a chimera is an organism with at least two genetically distinct types of cells — or, in other words, someone meant to be a twin. But while in the mother's womb, two fertilized eggs fuse, becoming one fetus that carries two distinct genetic codes — two separate strands of DNA.

The twin is invisible, but for chimeras the twin lives microscopically inside the body as DNA.



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Friday, September 8, 2006 6:48 AM

SICKDUDE


Now I'm all creepified!

Does it remind anyone else of Full Metal Alchemist?

"I am your father, Luke. Give in to the Dark Side, you nob!" - Doug McKenzie

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Friday, September 8, 2006 7:58 AM

VERSEEXPLORER


Makes me wonder how many invisible twins there are walking about. Very strange.




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Friday, September 8, 2006 8:13 AM

WASHSYOUNGERSEXIERBR

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Thats cool!!! I saw it on CSI.

It makes you question everything.

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Friday, September 8, 2006 8:21 AM

FREDGIBLET


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Originally posted by WashsYoungerSexierBrother:
Thats cool!!! I saw it on CSI.



That was a weird-ass episode if I remember correctly.

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Friday, September 8, 2006 7:46 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.


I remember hearing a few things about this. I read an article in Discover about it, I think; it pointed to two cases, one where a mother did not test as a mother to her children, and one where a father didn't test as the father (and so got out of having to pay child support). I think it mentioned that people with two different eye colors are chimeras, but that's the only external sign it gave.
Weird stuff.


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