It’s long been thought that an organ known as the thymus is crucial to development of the immune system. Early in life, it ensures diversity among immune cells called T cells that fight pathogens and ...

One of the most baffling glands in the body is the thymus. It lies just below the neck and behind the top of the breastbone, and in all the centuries that man has been studying physiology, its purpose ...

For years, the thymus was considered an insignificant remnant from prehistoric times. However, new studies point to its ...

Researchers have identified stem cells in the human thymus for the first time. These cells represent a potential new target to understand immune diseases and cancer and how to boost the immune system.

Scientists have composed a complete map of the cells in the developing human thymus. This novel approach with single cell resolution allowed them to identify more than 50 different cell states in the ...

For decades, the thymus has been regarded as a vestigial organ of childhood, essential for T-cell education early in life, but thought to lose relevance as it involutes into fatty tissue after ...

An international research team led by the University of British Columbia (UBC) has uncovered for the first time the importance of a small gland tucked behind the sternum that works to prevent ...

BOSTON – The thymus gland—which produces immune T cells before birth and during childhood— is often regarded as nonfunctional in adults, and it’s sometimes removed during cardiac surgery for easier ...

In the early 1900s, a strange disease was killing thousands of infants. Termed "status lymphaticus", it was blamed on the thymus, a small, grayish-pink gland weighing no more than 37 grams nestled ...

The identification of a functionally distinct thymus-dependent lineage of mouse natural killer cells demonstrates the diversity of the natural killer cell population. NK cells are engaged in a ...