{"id":104881,"date":"2020-04-06T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/aubrey-de-grey-covid19-fighting-infections-with-rejuvenation-biotechnology"},"modified":"2020-04-06T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T00:22:19","slug":"aubrey-de-grey-covid19-fighting-infections-with-rejuvenation-biotechnology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/aubrey-de-grey-covid19-fighting-infections-with-rejuvenation-biotechnology","title":{"rendered":"Aubrey de Grey \u2014 COVID19 \u2014 Fighting Infections with Rejuvenation Biotechnology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AEuJOkRSFPw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Can Rejuvenation Biotech Help Boost Immune Response to Infectious Diseases? Aging of the immune system makes reduces immune response in elderly \u2014 3 main reasons: cell loss (naive t-cells), accumulation of cells we don\u2019t want (death resistant cells), and changes to internal constitution of the cells.<\/p>\n<p>Early stage research by Janko Nikolich-\u017dugich indicates that the naive T-cells* produced by the thyamus may not work properly because of something going on with the lymph nodes.<\/p>\n<p>Also vaccines don\u2019t really work well in the elderly either because of other parts of the immune system not working so well.<\/p>\n<p>* T-cells as part of the adaptive immune system rely for it\u2019s function on genetic diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Audio here: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/aubreydegreycovid19audio\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/aubreydegreycovid19audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks for watching!<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/aubrey-de-grey-covid19-fighting-infections-with-rejuvenation-biotechnology\">Continue reading \u201cAubrey de Grey \u2014 COVID19 \u2014 Fighting Infections with Rejuvenation Biotechnology\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Rejuvenation Biotech Help Boost Immune Response to Infectious Diseases? Aging of the immune system makes reduces immune response in elderly \u2014 3 main reasons: cell loss (naive t-cells), accumulation of cells we don\u2019t want (death resistant cells), and changes to internal constitution of the cells. Early stage research by Janko Nikolich-\u017dugich indicates that the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}