Bird Pinkerton

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Unexplainable · The cells we share · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

Not exactly.

So a chimera is like a, it's the mythical creature from like Greek myth.

So you have like, it has like a lion head and like a snake tail and like a goat body.

Okay.

Like a griffin's a chimera, a sphinx, a manticore.

Right.

Let the record show that my mother did know what a chimera was and was unfairly put on the spot.

So that is a chimera in myth.

But to understand a chimera in biology and what it has to do with pregnancy, I reached out to Amy Boddy, who is a biologist at UC Santa Barbara.

And Amy says that in biology, the definition of chimera is a little bit broader than in myth.

And so she was telling me that basically whenever you have a living thing that's made up of pieces of more than one individual, that's a chimera.

So you can find them in plants.

You can find them in animals.

You can even find them in humans.

So this is not like the goat-lion hybrid version of a chimera, right?

It's just bits of two genetically different people.

Mm-hmm.

But so technically, Mama, Amy was telling me that this process that you and I went through, where some of my cells left my body, kind of went into your body, that is considered chimerism on like a tiny scale.

So they literally call it micro chimera because you just have like a few cells.

So cells from me, cells from my sister, Chloe, and also potentially from any like miscarriages that you might have had.

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