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Aging Immune Cells May Betray the Hidden Face of Depression

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Somewhere in your bloodstream, a type of white blood cell is quietly doing double duty. Monocytes are foot soldiers of the immune system, dispatched to sites of infection and inflammation with workaday efficiency. But these cells are also, it turns out, keeping a kind of biological diary, accumulating chemical modifications to their DNA that record how fast they are aging. And a new study suggests that diary may contain entries that have nothing to do with immunity. It could be tracking whether

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