{"id":77699,"date":"2018-04-10T20:43:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T03:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/some-people-are-their-own-identical-twins-and-the-science-behind-that-is-fascinating"},"modified":"2018-04-10T20:43:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T03:43:25","slug":"some-people-are-their-own-identical-twins-and-the-science-behind-that-is-fascinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/some-people-are-their-own-identical-twins-and-the-science-behind-that-is-fascinating","title":{"rendered":"Some People Are Their Own Identical Twins, And The Science Behind That Is Fascinating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/some-people-are-their-own-identical-twins-and-the-science-behind-that-is-fascinating.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take any two cells from your body and there\u2019s a good chance their genetic sequences will be a match. That is, unless you happen to have what\u2019s referred to in the medical literature as a \u2018tetragametic chimerism\u2019 \u2013 a condition that causes separate fertilised embryos to merge into a single body.<\/p>\n<p>Once thought to be rare among humans, there\u2019s good reason to suspect we might be seeing a lot more of it in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, nobody is really certain how many humans have cells in their body that once belonged to a sibling.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/tetragametic-chimerism-embryos-multiple-births\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/tetragametic-chimerism-embryos-multiple-births<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take any two cells from your body and there\u2019s a good chance their genetic sequences will be a match. That is, unless you happen to have what\u2019s referred to in the medical literature as a \u2018tetragametic chimerism\u2019 \u2013 a condition that causes separate fertilised embryos to merge into a single body. Once thought to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}