If we can figure out exactly the effects that microchimera have on our body in terms of cancer or also autoimmune diseases, like that could potentially be huge. The other exciting thing is some people are again, seeing these potential fetal cells helping with wound healing and the thought is that it could be a therapy as well. Right now, because this is all such a mystery, we're still a very long way away from these kinds of applications.
Fetuses leave cells behind in their parents' bodies, where they braid themselves into tissues, and remain, for years. What are they doing in there?
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