THE key to women’s longevity may lie with their stronger immune systems.
Traditionally, men’s shorter lives have been put down to the greater risks they
take, but researchers have come up with a tantalising new theory after finding
that women produce more new immune cells than men.
It’s the thymus gland that’s responsible for churning out the T cells that
fight off infections, but it wastes away with age. To find out what effect this
deterioration has on the production of T cells, Richard Aspinall, Jeffery
Pido-Lopez and their team at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London
tracked…
