Using mouse embryo cells, scientists at the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine created an artificial thymus gland with the same structure and function as an adult organ. Organ transplants are ...

Cells from a mouse embryo were reprogrammed to look like thymus cells and then transplanted into a mouse. The cells formed a replacement organ with the same structure, complexity and function as a ...

After treatment, the regenerated organ had a similar structure to that found in a young mouse. The function of the thymus was also restored and the mice began making more white blood cells called ...

In a new study published yesterday in Nature Cell Biology, scientists announced that they had managed to grow a fully functional thymus in a mouse. The thymus started out as part of a mouse ...

"These cells mature in the thymus, an organ just above the heart, where they 'get educated' to not attack the body." Study co-author Jessica Lancaster, a postdoctoral researcher, and Ehrlich used a ...

After acute injury to the thymus in their mouse models, Rac1 GTPase inhibitor increased cellularity in the thymus while simultaneously decreasing mir29 activity and, excitingly, increasing IL-23 and ...

The model may help speed the development of targeted therapies for cancer of the thymus, a gland that makes immune cells that help protect the body from infections. “Having a mouse model of thymic ...