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We didn't help things by preventing immunity being passed on to future generations, not many nuns have children.
by rjsw 6y ago
We didn't help things by preventing immunity being passed on to future generations, not many nuns have children.
- lgeorget 6y agoNot that I have formation or experience in the field but my understanding was that only antibodies were passed from the mother to the children, not lymphocytes or immunity memory. But now that I google it, there is a rather new body of research about the genetic and epigenetic component of immunity. Like https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27102489/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27102489/ for example. What an exciting time to be alive.
- namenotrequired 6y agoI interpreted the GP's words "innate immunity" as meaning "genetic". Was I wrong?