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Immune 46: Bats don't STING like a bee

Immune

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The Role of Sting in DNA Damage

15 to 20% of pregnancies are miscarried within the first trimester. And so there's some literature to suggest that if you have, you know, a mutation or an integration or something that's going to be a little bit more difficult. Or something that causes damage to the DNA and then it can be sensed in that way. So this is interesting. I just found a nature paper. Yeah, bats have a very low incidence tumors. One of the reasons is they have an efflux pump that pumps out genotoxic chemicals more than other organisms. How about that? Interesting. They also, I think I read that they have an expansion of the proteins that are involved in detecting DNA

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