{"id":167757,"date":"2023-07-18T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T21:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/new-research-shows-babies-immunological-weak-spot-and-strength"},"modified":"2023-07-18T16:24:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T21:24:13","slug":"new-research-shows-babies-immunological-weak-spot-and-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/new-research-shows-babies-immunological-weak-spot-and-strength","title":{"rendered":"New research shows babies\u2019 immunological weak spot and strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-shows-babies-immunological-weak-spot-and-strength2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pair of new studies led by researchers at Columbia University explains why babies get so many common respiratory infections and identifies a specialized cluster of immune cells found only in babies that help them better cope with new pathogens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know little about how the immune system develops throughout life, and most of what we know about immune system development in children comes from animal studies,\u201d says Donna Farber, Ph.D., an expert in immune system development at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons who led the research. \u201cBut mice develop much more quickly than humans and their immune systems are a bit different than ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Using a trove of tissue samples from deceased pediatric organ donors, Farber\u2019s team was able to pinpoint aspects of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immune+system\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune system<\/a> development that distinguish babies from adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of new studies led by researchers at Columbia University explains why babies get so many common respiratory infections and identifies a specialized cluster of immune cells found only in babies that help them better cope with new pathogens. \u201cWe know little about how the immune system develops throughout life, and most of what [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167757","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}