March 31 (UPI) -- A team of U.S. scientists said Friday that a study of the immune systems for those rare individuals that reach 100 years or more showed they are remarkably resilient to disease.
Researchers at Boston University and the Tufts Medical Center, in a study published in The Lancet, found that centenarians have distinct cells in their immune system that allow for their bodies to adapt more successfully to sickness and disease.