{"id":8368,"date":"2023-06-02T15:22:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2023-06-02T15:31:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T19:31:38","slug":"centenarians-possess-unique-immunity-that-helps-them-achieve-exceptional-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/2023\/06\/02\/centenarians-possess-unique-immunity-that-helps-them-achieve-exceptional-longevity\/","title":{"rendered":"Centenarians Possess Unique Immunity that Helps them Achieve Exceptional Longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Led by researchers from Boston University Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center, a new study finds centenarians harbor distinct immune cell type composition and activity and possess highly functional immune systems that have successfully adapted to a history of sickness allowing for exceptional longevity. These immune cells may help identify important mechanisms to recover from disease and promote longevity.\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/ebiom\/article\/PIIS2352-3964(23)00079-8\/fulltext\">findings<\/a>\u00a0appear online in the journal Lancet eBiomedicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/2023\/03\/31\/centenarians-possess-unique-immunity-that-helps-them-achieve-exceptional-longevity\/\">Click to read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Led by researchers from Boston University Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center, a new study finds centenarians harbor distinct immune cell type composition and activity and possess highly functional immune systems that have successfully adapted to a history of sickness allowing for exceptional longevity. These immune cells may help identify important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22315,"featured_media":8370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8375,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions\/8375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}