Healing up just fine it seems, all dried up. Thankyou Jesus for giving me faith. I need to remember to finish off the antibiotics since I got 'em. Just in case..
Thank your 1-4% Neanderthal DNA. That's who we got our robust immune system from.....back in the day.
culled from a couple of science journals.
A research group at Bonn University and international collaborators discovered a novel receptor, which allows the immune system of modern humans to recognize dangerous invaders, and subsequently elicits an immune response. The blueprint for this advantageous structure was in addition identified in the genome of Neanderthals, hinting at its origin. The receptor provided these early humans with immunity against local diseases. The presence of this receptor in Europeans but its absence in early men suggests that it was inherited from Neanderthals.
Humans got immunity boost from Neanderthals, study finds
Neanderthals, as well as hominids known as Denisovans, contributed key types of immune genes still found in human populations, scientists say.
Researchers believe that key versions of immune system genes in modern humans appear to have been passed down by archaic relatives.
Indeed, DNA inherited from Neanderthals and newly discovered hominids dubbed the Denisovans has contributed to key types of immune genes still present among populations in Europe, Asia and Oceania. And scientists speculate that these gene variants must have been highly beneficial to modern humans, helping them thrive as they migrated throughout the world.
This DNA has had "a very profound functional impact in the immune systems of modern humans," said study first author Laurent Abi-Rached, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of senior author Peter Parham of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
