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Boosting our ageing immune system

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Leading Experimental Medicine and MRC Professor, Katja Simon, heads a team of scientists in developing a new method of boosting the ageing immune system using the naturally occurring chemical compound spermidine. Spermidine has potential to make vaccines more effective in the elderly, which in future could help protect this vulnerable population from seasonal flu and other infections.

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