The fetal thymus is a crucial organ for the development of the immune system, playing a significant role in the maturation of T-cells, which are essential for immune responses. Recent research has ...

A team of international researchers led by scientists at City of Hope, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, with its National Medical ...

There is potential for Tregs and amphiregulin to be used in patients receiving cancer therapies to ameliorate immune function.

including T cell lymphocytes which are matured in the thymus. The fundamental discovery of the key role that the thymus plays in the development of our immune system underpins our understanding of ...

Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators at Ghent University, Belgium, the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 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 ...

The study provides an in-depth analysis of T cell development, beginning with their migration from bone marrow to the thymus, where they undergo critical selection and maturation processes. It ...

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 ...

He uses mouse models to study the thymus, the organ in which specialized immune cells called T cells mature. His goal is to apply his findings to develop new therapies to promote immunity in cancer ...