Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (artificially coloured) were injected into mice to cause the severe condition called sepsis.Credit: Science Source/SPL
Genes that protect the body against infection during youth can do harm in old age, according to…

Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (artificially coloured) were injected into mice to cause the severe condition called sepsis.Credit: Science Source/SPL
Genes that protect the body against infection during youth can do harm in old age, according to…
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Woolly rhinos (Coelodonta antiquitatis) lived in Eurasia during the Pleistocene period (artist’s impression).Credit: Mark P. Witton/SPL
Roughly 14,400 years ago in what is now Russia, a wolf pup feasted on the meat of a woolly rhinoceros…

Ageing rewires the body’s tolerance to infection