January 20, 2020
´ºÓêÖ±²¥app School of Medicine
Scientists from the ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app School of Medicine and RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Science (IMS) in Japan have used single-cell RNA analysis to find that supercentenarians¡ªpeople over the age of 110¡ªhave an excess of a type of immune cell called cytotoxic CD4 T-cells.
The research team¡¯s studies have found that these individuals were relatively immune to illnesses such as infections and cancer during their lifetimes. To answer why, they looked at circulating immune cells from a group of supercentenarians and younger controls.
The results of this study were published on November 13, 2019, in the peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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