Our immune systems develop to recognize what is foreign within our bodies. As immune cells are generated in the bone marrow ...

In this interview, News Medical speaks with Olivier Negre, Chief Scientific Officer at Smart Immune, about how immunotherapy ...

Author for correspondence Tel.: +44 191 222 5462 steven.o'[email protected] T cells develop in the thymus, where they undergo positive and negative selection to produce a nonself-binding T ...

Did you know there's a small gland in your chest, often called the "thymus" or the "happiness gland," that plays a crucial ...

During infections, the immune system needs to distinguish foreign antigens that are expressed by invading bacteria and ...

The team’s study results, published today in the journal Immunity, outline their discovery of a specific type of regulatory T cell that can home back into the thymus and repair the organ when it's ...

small DNA snippets in thymocytes—nascent T cells undergoing differentiation in the thymus—are randomly scrambled and reassembled, yielding more than 10 10 distinct variations. This random ...

Some stay in the marrow and develop into B lymphocytes (B cells); others travel to the thymus and become T lymphocytes (T cells). These two cell types have different roles. B lymphocytes produce ...

New research shows how a specially trained population of immune cells keeps the peace by preventing other immune cells from attacking their own. The study provides a better understanding of immune ...

T cells are produced in the thymus, a specialized organ of the immune system. During development, Treg cells are trained to recognize specific peptides, including self-peptides from the body.