{"id":43172,"date":"2025-11-21T13:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43172"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:28:31","slug":"word-of-the-day-1073","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/11\/21\/word-of-the-day-1073\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Holobiont<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A holobiont is any agglomeration of a host, microbiome, virome, and other related organisms that each function together as a whole.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceabc.com\/pure-sciences\/what-are-holobionts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ScienceABC<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Each&#8221; seems superfluous, even confusing.<\/p>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26835680-100-this-book-is-a-great-insight-into-the-new-science-of-microchimerism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>This book is a great insight into the new science of microchimerism<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Helen Thomson, review of Lise Barn\u00e9oud&#8217;s <em>Hidden Guests<\/em>, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (8 November 2025, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This fascinating idea \u2013 that we are a holobiont, composed not only of human cells and microbes but also fragments of others \u2013 and its implications sit at the heart of\u00a0<i>Hidden Guests: Migrating cells and how the new science of microchimerism is redefining human identity<\/i>\u00a0by Lise Barn\u00e9oud.<\/p>\n<p>Barn\u00e9oud traces not only the serendipitous discovery of these\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26134751-100-cells-from-other-family-members-live-in-you-and-protect-your-health\/\">microchimeric cells<\/a>, but also how their interpretation has been shaped by culture and politics. The notion that fragments of parents, siblings and even fetuses embed themselves within our bodies and brains can stimulate wide-ranging feelings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holobiont: A holobiont is any agglomeration of a host, microbiome, virome, and other related organisms that each function together as a whole. [ScienceABC] &#8220;Each&#8221; seems superfluous, even confusing. Noted in &#8220;This book is a great insight into the new science of microchimerism,&#8221; Helen Thomson, review of Lise Barn\u00e9oud&#8217;s Hidden Guests, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/11\/21\/word-of-the-day-1073\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43173,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43172\/revisions\/43173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}