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Team finds way to ‘wake up’ tired immune cells

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Team finds way to ‘wake up’ tired immune cells
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Researchers have found a way to wake up tired immune cells..
It’s like a shot of espresso for “exhausted” immune systems—a discovery that could restore the body’s defenses against cancer and infection.
For decades, scientists have accepted that the immune system naturally weakens with age. Georgia Tech biomedical engineer Ankur Singh wasn’t convinced.
Then the COVID-19 pandemic made the stakes impossible to ignore.
Singh says that as older adults struggled to recove

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