Aubrey de Grey – COVID19 – Fighting Infections through Rejuvenation Biotechnology
Can Rejuvenation Biotech Boost Immune Responsiveness to Infectious Diseases? The aging of the immune system reduces the immune response of elderly people for three main reasons: loss of cells (naive T-cells), accumulations of cells that we don’t need (death resistance cells) and changes in internal constitution of the cell.
Janko Nikolich-Zugich’s early stage research suggests that something is happening with the lymphnodes may be causing the thyamus to produce naive cells* which do not function properly.
Also, vaccines do not work as well for the elderly due to other parts of their immune system that aren’t working well.
The adaptive immune system, which includes T-cells, is dependent on genetic diversity to function.
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