Far too little research into infectious disease and the development of vaccines and other approaches to therapy employs old animals. It is accepted that infectious disease becomes worse with age and treatments become less effective, and then left to the smaller aging research community to see if anything can be done about it. Here, for...

Far too little research into infectious disease and the development of vaccines and other approaches to therapy employs old animals. It is accepted that infectious disease becomes…

The immune system declines with age, and this causes more than just a progressive failure to adequately defend against infectious pathogens. The immune system is deeply involved…