Nature: The special immune system in the fetus has a major impact on organ transplantation

Dr. Jerry Chan, a clinician at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, discovered a strange phenomenon when studying fetal stem cells and gene therapy: the fetus seems to be "not too happy" to receive treatment, and the drug is always immune to rejection from the fetus.

《自然》:胎儿中特殊免疫系统对器官移植带来重大影响

Dr. Jerry Chan

This seems unlikely!

After all, the textbook also says, "The fetus does not respond to immune stimuli" (2)! What's more, if the fetus has a mature immune system, how do they get along with the "exotic" mother? Isn't the immune system on both sides not going to fight?

Should you believe in mainstream views or believe in your own research results?

Dr. Chan chose the latter. So he found Dr. Florent Ginhoux, an immunologist at the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), and decided to figure out what was going on.

《自然》:胎儿中特殊免疫系统对器官移植带来重大影响

Dr. Florent Ginhoux

Finally, today's Nature magazine published the research results of Dr. Ginhoux and Dr. Chan, who did find a special mature immune system in the fetus (3).

According to a review article in Nature and Science, the study will have a huge impact on autoimmune diseases such as abortion, premature birth, diabetes, organ transplantation, and uterine stem cells and gene therapy (2).

Can the influence of a research be so large? Let's take a look at how they did it. What did they find?

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