{"id":74941,"date":"2018-01-05T12:02:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/understanding-why-the-thymus-shrinks-with-age"},"modified":"2018-01-11T17:05:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T01:05:29","slug":"understanding-why-the-thymus-shrinks-with-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/understanding-why-the-thymus-shrinks-with-age","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Why the Thymus Shrinks With Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/understanding-why-the-thymus-shrinks-with-age.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, we are going to take a look at a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-reports\/abstract\/S2211-1247(17)31410-9\">study<\/a> in which scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research have recently identified a type of cell that appears to be implied in thymic involution\u2014the shrinking of the thymus[1].<\/p>\n<p>Thymic involution is somewhat of a mystery in biology, a phenomenon that isn\u2019t fully understood that happens to everyone with age and is a driving cause of immunosenescence, the age-related decline in our immune systems\u2019 ability to fight disease. This new study helps to shed light on why it happens.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/understanding-why-the-thymus\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/understanding-why-the-thymus\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we are going to take a look at a new study in which scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research have recently identified a type of cell that appears to be implied in thymic involution\u2014the shrinking of the thymus[1]. Thymic involution is somewhat of a mystery in biology, a phenomenon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74941","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74997,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74941\/revisions\/74997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}