Aiming to Better Understand Why Immune Aging Reduces the Ability to Fight a Tuberculosis Infection (opens in new tab)

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 example, is an example of research in which scientists attempt to build an incrementally better picture as to what exactly is going wrong in the aging immune s...