
The Platelet Connection: New Research Reveals How LAV-BPIFB4 Rewires Immune Aging
Abstract Centenarians don’t just live longer — their immune systems seem to age on a different, gentler curve. For more than a decade, researchers have traced part of that resilience to a single gene: BPIFB4, and specifically to a longevity-associated variant of it, known as LAV-BPIFB4. Carriers of this variant show lower cardiovascular risk, reduced chronic inflammation, and — as a growing body of work has shown — measurably better-aging