Of Monkeys and Men: New Insights into Using Chinese Rhesus Macaque as a Viable Model of Human Aging

Of all human conditions,aging and death are perhaps the most universal.Unfortunately death among elderly populations is often a drawn out and painful affair,as advanced age is accompanied by marked rises in morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases.Precisely why this is the case has been subject to a great deal of speculation,but one commonly held explanation is referred to as immunosenescence,where the human body undergoes a remodeling of both innate and adaptive immune responses,and some functions are enhanced while others diminished.Both responses are key to the human immune systems,which fights off outside