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They say mom's never far away, but I don't think this is what they had in mind. In this episode, learn about the mind-blowing connection you share with your mom. A little bit of you never leaves the other!

More reading below!

Chimera/fetal microchimerism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchimerism

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/03/cells.html

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-discover-childrens-cells-living-in-mothers-brain/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fetal-cells-microchimerism/

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/32678/title/Swapping-DNA-in-the-Womb/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lab-rat/2014/04/13/guest-post-i-am-my-mothers-chimera/

Maternal cells persist to adulthood in child:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC408407/

Fetal cells assist in cardiac repair:

http://circres.ahajournals.org/content/110/1/3.full

Fetal cells assist in scar healing:

https://www.landesbioscience.com/article/28746/full_text/#load/info/all

Spider babies that eat their mother:

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory-details/some-animals-eat-their-moms-and-other-cannibalism-facts

Joe Hanson - Host and writer

Joe Nicolosi - Director

Amanda Fox - Producer, Spotzen IncKate Eads - Associate Producer

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Andrew Matthews - Editor and motion graphics

John Knudsen - Gaffer

Music:

"Ouroboros" by Kevin MacLeod

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