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Letter: Like baby like mum

Published 21 September 2005

From Donna Ross

So fetal stem cells can “patch up” the mother’s brain (20 August, p 8). Astounding. Now I know why I developed eczema after the birth of my third child, who has this complaint. Perhaps I should have DNA-tested my husband before marrying him.

Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Issue no. 2518 published 24 September 2005

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