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The reservoir of blood stem cells shrinks with age. It becomes increasingly dominated by stem cells that produce immune cells associated with chronic inflammation. Almost all of the 60-year-olds studied show this change. Researchers from the Centre for Genomic Regulation and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, both in Barcelona, and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) published their findings in the journal Nature. The discovery could help explain the chronic inflammation that occurs with age and makes us more susceptible to disease. It could also help identify early warning signs of unhealthy aging processes long before symptoms appear or blood cancer develops.
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