These animals grew up to be healthy, but had a striking peculiarity. They accepted skin grafts from mice of the strain whose thymus glands they carried, while rejecting, in the normal way ...

Now it appears that the thymus founds a line of cells that is responsible for the production of antibody Its function has been poorly understood, largely because the gland atrophies after childhood.

The thymus gland, which sits behind your sternum, is often considered to be useless once you reach adulthood. However, it may serve more of a purpose than experts originally thought. Researchers ...

Deletion of the ‘glial cells missing-2’ gene in mice disrupts development of the parathyroid glands but does not ... Surprisingly, the thymus has been identified as a secondary source of ...