by Ryan O’byrne, University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry Shokrollah Elahi led a new study showing that short-lived white blood cells called neutrophils play a role in impaired T cell functions and counts in people with HIV, as well as the chronic inflammation that is common with the virus. Credit: Najmeh Bozorgmehr In...
By SHARON BEGLEY JANUARY 6, 2021 Magali Gonzalez Sierra, who has progeria, prepares for her 15th birthday party in El Cabuyal, Colombia. Children with the genetic disease age prematurely and typically die around age 14.LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Biologists tend not to discuss experimental results on a handful of cells and a single solitary mouse —...
