I Am My Own Twin"
The Strange Case of Human Chimerism
Imagine taking a DNA test only to discover your very own children are not biologically yours. That’s what occurred with a woman until doctors realized she was a chimera.
Chimerism is a not so common condition in which an individual carries two sets of DNA, usually the result of a lost twin during pregnancy. It’s as if two individuals exist in one body.
Chimerism plays with everything we think we know about identity, parenthood, and medical diagnosis.
As a student of medicine, this leaves me to ask:How frequently do we doubt what appears biologically “impossible”?
How many additional chimeras are living among us without our knowledge?
And sometimes, science doesn’t provide answers it provides better questions.