We Might Have Been Wrong About How the Immune System Ages Sarah Amandalore

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/we-might-have-been-wrong-about-how-immune-system-ages-2026a1000x8n?src= A surprising thing might happen to the immune system if you live long enough: rather than steadily declining, it might adapt to help you survive. A new analysis in Cell Reports adds fresh support to this hypothesis, which emerged in 2019 when researchers at Osaka University, Suita, Japan, first showed that “supercentenarians” — those who live to 110 years and beyond — harbor an unusually high number of a rare immune cell.