"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
New Scientist is running an article which suggests that stray stem cells from a growing fetus may colonize in the mother and repair damage to the mother’s brain.
This seems only fair, given the amount of brain damage that a child will inflict on his or her parents over their lifetime. 🙂
It is all very tentative research, but pretty interesting nonetheless.
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