UW News
James Anderson
May 6, 2022
Model finds COVID-19 deaths among elderly may be due to genetic limit on cell division
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Your immune system’s ability to combat COVID-19, like any infection, largely depends on its ability to replicate the immune cells effective at destroying the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease. These cloned immune cells cannot be infinitely created, and a key hypothesis of a new University of Washington study is that the body’s ability to…
August 18, 2016
Twins, especially male identical twins, live longer
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Analysis of almost 3,000 pairs of Danish twins shows that they live longer than the general population, especially if they are identical.