Timing is Everything: How the Immune System Adapts Throughout Pregnancy (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Timing is Everything: How the Immune System Adapts Throughout Pregnancy (1 of 3)

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An immunological "clock" of pregnancy highlights key immune system features at certain time points during pregnancy. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 1, 2017, issue of Science Immunology, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Aghaeepour at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "An immune clock of human pregnancy."

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