{"id":213646,"date":"2025-05-09T13:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/b-cells-found-to-be-crucial-for-long-term-vaccine-protection-new-study-shows"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:11:18","slug":"b-cells-found-to-be-crucial-for-long-term-vaccine-protection-new-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/b-cells-found-to-be-crucial-for-long-term-vaccine-protection-new-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"B cells found to be crucial for long-term vaccine protection, new study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/b-cells-found-to-be-crucial-for-long-term-vaccine-protection-new-study-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new findings could help improve vaccine effectiveness in some immunocompromised patients. Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have uncovered a critical, previously underappreciated role for B cells in vaccine protection. Best known for producing antibodies, B cells also guide other immune cells, specifically CD8 T cells, teaching them how to mount lasting defenses after vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>The study was recently published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink of CD8 T cells as rookie firefighters,\u201d said lead author Jared Klarquist, PhD, assistant research professor of immunology and microbiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. \u201cB cells teach the class on pacing. Without them, the rookies rush in, fight hard, and quit. They don\u2019t save anything for the next fire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new findings could help improve vaccine effectiveness in some immunocompromised patients. Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have uncovered a critical, previously underappreciated role for B cells in vaccine protection. Best known for producing antibodies, B cells also guide other immune cells, specifically CD8 T cells, teaching them how to mount [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213646","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}