Transfer of Mother’s Cells Molds Baby’s Immunity

Monday, February 2, 2009 - 20:21 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have discovered that a mother’s cells slip across the placenta, enter the fetus’s body and teach it to treat these cells as its own.

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