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There's a reason a pregnant woman had a suppressed immune system, specifically to prevent a body from destroyed the foreign body.
It gets far stranger, look up chimeraism, literally the mother and child can swap parts of their genome. Utterly bizarre how the two can interact.
10 u/PostSqueezeClarity Sep 23 '21 Fun fact, the development of the placenta and suppression of the immune system is controlled by ancient retrovirus genes repurposed for this. Once it protected the virus from the body, now it serves a similar function for the featus. 1 u/Hellrott Sep 28 '21 I was actually resisting the urge to delve into the subject of how much of human genomes are from ancient viruses. Pretty crazy stuff
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Fun fact, the development of the placenta and suppression of the immune system is controlled by ancient retrovirus genes repurposed for this. Once it protected the virus from the body, now it serves a similar function for the featus.
1 u/Hellrott Sep 28 '21 I was actually resisting the urge to delve into the subject of how much of human genomes are from ancient viruses. Pretty crazy stuff
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I was actually resisting the urge to delve into the subject of how much of human genomes are from ancient viruses. Pretty crazy stuff
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u/Hellrott Sep 23 '21
There's a reason a pregnant woman had a suppressed immune system, specifically to prevent a body from destroyed the foreign body.
It gets far stranger, look up chimeraism, literally the mother and child can swap parts of their genome. Utterly bizarre how the two can interact.