{"id":235235,"date":"2026-04-15T02:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/taking-a-closer-look-at-immune-memory-could-spur-progress-in-the-fight-against-lethal-illnesses"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:18:21","slug":"taking-a-closer-look-at-immune-memory-could-spur-progress-in-the-fight-against-lethal-illnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/taking-a-closer-look-at-immune-memory-could-spur-progress-in-the-fight-against-lethal-illnesses","title":{"rendered":"Taking a closer look at immune \u2018memory\u2019 could spur progress in the fight against lethal illnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/taking-a-closer-look-at-immune-memory-could-spur-progress-in-the-fight-against-lethal-illnesses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The average human has about 1.8 trillion immune cells. These cells patrol the body for bacteria, viruses, cancers, and other threats. Vaccines enhance this security system by teaching our immune cells to target specific pathogens. According to the World Health Organization, vaccine-induced immunity saves about six lives every minute. But how long does this protective immune \u201cmemory\u201d last?<\/p>\n<p>According to Shane Crotty, Ph.D., Professor and Chief Scientific Officer at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), we still have much to learn about immune memory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are actually not many studies of human immune memory due to vaccines,\u201d says Crotty. \u201cScientists traditionally don\u2019t track <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2022-07-vaccine-covid-short-lived-booster-shots.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">immune memory<\/a> past one year after vaccination\u2014or even six months after vaccination\u2014and that\u2019s a bit of a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average human has about 1.8 trillion immune cells. These cells patrol the body for bacteria, viruses, cancers, and other threats. Vaccines enhance this security system by teaching our immune cells to target specific pathogens. According to the World Health Organization, vaccine-induced immunity saves about six lives every minute. But how long does this protective [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235235","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=235235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}