Bird Pinkerton

Because it's not attacking the self.

It's attacking these foreign cells.

And that's kind of the whole problem here, right?

Like, these cells are both immune.

part of the parent self and also genetically foreign.

So maybe, and again, emphasis on maybe, this could be contributing to autoimmune diseases.

Like maybe these foreign but not so foreign cells are why the body starts attacking itself.

And there have been a few studies to sort of look at people with autoimmune diseases to look for proof that this might be happening.

But once again, like, these are mostly sort of correlations.

Like, we saw these cells and we saw this problem.

Maybe they're related, right?

So, like, there's still work to be done here to sort of tease this relationship out and figure out what's going on.

But it is sort of one way, at least, that people think that some of these sort of cells from, like, fetuses could be causing issues.

I think so too, right?

So there's this possibility, this possibility that they're involved in autoimmune diseases, right?

And then the other possibility, which you are not going to like, is that these microchimera might also play a role in cancer.

Okay.

Lay it on.

Just lay it on.

So basically, cancer is almost one of the best examples of maybe this is helpful, maybe this is harmful.