Doctors might excise an adult’s thymus if it contains an abnormal growth, to help alleviate an autoimmune disease or simply because it’s in the way during chest surgery, he says.

New research led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and published in the New England Journal of Medicine has uncovered evidence that the thymus is in fact critical for adult ...

The thymus helps develop the immune system in babies and young children. Typically, it shrinks as you get older. Most adults don’t have any problems with their thymus gland. But some conditions may ...

The thymus, credited as being the “seat of the soul” by Galen of Pergamon almost 2000 years ago, was later considered to be a “graveyard” for dying cells and was deemed to be “an ...

and routine removal of the thymus is performed in a variety of surgical procedures. We hypothesized that the adult thymus is needed to sustain immune competence and overall health. We evaluated ...

“Easton is showing us that we can do this in an immunocompromised child. I believe that we will be able to almost reset the immune system in such a way that we can do these heart and thymus ...

The cells formed a replacement organ with the same structure, complexity and function as a healthy adult thymus. (MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh) A whole ...

Our Lady's Hospital in Crumlin has confirmed this evening that the removal of thymus glands from living children undergoing open-heart surgery is standard practice there. The statement came after ...

The FDA has approved the nation’s first thymus tissue product in order to treat children with congenital athymia, an ultra-rare immune disorder where they are born without a thymus. The product ...