U-M researchers turned to pregnancy to understand why some cancers successfully circumvent the immune system to grow unchecked. Weiping Zou, M.D., Ph.D., discusses the cross-functional research study and how they found that, indeed, there is a molecular mechanism shared in cancer and pregnancy that suppresses the immune system.
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