Gabrielle Rizzuto from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center discusses her work on the curious immunology of pregnancy and how a woman tolerates a genetically different baby but quickly rejects a mismatched organ donation.

Host: Cindy Leifer

Guest: Gabrielle Rizzuto

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Rizzuto lab at MSKCC
Tolerance at the fetal-maternal interface (Nature, 2022)
The paradox of fetal-maternal tolerance (J Exp Med, 2022)
Spatially resolved timeline of fetal-maternal interface (Nature, 2023)
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