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[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 8 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Outstanding meme. Cool fact is that the wasps inject their eggs along side a virus, which specifically turns off the manduca's immune system for a bit. It then allows the immune system to turn back on. Since the eggs have been in there during the immune reboot, they're considered 'self' and not attacked by the immune system

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

That is some shit straight out of sci-fi horror like Alien.

[–] Chuymatt@beehaw.org 1 points 7 hours ago

I assume someone is looking into a similar system for transplants, right?!