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How anti-ageing drugs could boost COVID vaccines in older people

COVID-19 poses the greatest threat to older people, but vaccines often don’t work well in this group. Scientists hope drugs that rejuvenate the immune system will help.
  1. Cassandra Willyard

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Unlike fine wine, the human body does not improve with age. Hearing fades, skin sags, joints give out. Even the body’s immune system loses some of its vigour.

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Nature 586, 352-354 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02856-7

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