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Not 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
by lgeorget 6y ago
Not 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?