Hidden Guests: Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism Is Redefining Human Identity

Part mind-bending medical mystery--part cutting-edge science--Hidden Guests uncovers the phenomenon of microchimerism: the presence of foreign cells inside our own bodies. The incredible story of how those cells might change everything we know about the immune system, lineage, and identity.

Lise Barnéoud is a French freelance science journalist who regularly contributes to Le Monde and Mediapart. In addition to Hidden Guests, she is the author of two books about vaccines, Immunisés? and Vaccins. She won the 2008 Fondation Varenne award for science journalism in a national daily newspaper and the Trophées Signatures Santé’s 2016 Grand Prix.