In biomedical research, so-called organs-on-a-chip, also referred to as microphysiological systems, are becoming increasingly ...

Toy makers, children’s shops and specialty retailers are pausing orders for the winter holidays as the import taxes cascade through supply chains. Factories in China produce nearly 80 percent of ...

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 Greeks believed your thymus was home to your soul. In fact, thymus means “soul” in Greek. While no studies have proved that to be the case, your thymus does play an important role in your ...

Two terminal brachial artery branches, the ulnar and radial arteries, supply the forearm and hand. The location of the brachial artery is close to the skin, and it is frequently injured.

Defining the identity and the niches of epithelial stem cells with highly pleiotropic multilineage potency in the human thymus. Developmental Cell , 2023; DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.08.017 Cite ...

In a study of almost 2,300 adults who underwent chest surgery, removing the thymus gland was associated with higher rates of death and of cancer within the next few years, researchers report in ...

The function of the thymus in human adults is unclear, and routine removal of the thymus is performed in a variety of surgical procedures. We hypothesized that the adult thymus is needed to ...

The survival rate for stage 4 thymus cancer depends on how far the cancer has spread. Surgery might offer a cure if the cancer hasn’t spread too far. Otherwise, treatment may include ...

The arterial twigs supplying the glands are end arteries with ... B1-around thyroid, B2- intrathymic, B3- supply from thymus and mediastinum Figure 4 While these classifications provide anatomic and ...

The thymus is one of the most important organs you probably don’t think about. Positioned below the breastbone at the top of the chest, it facilitates the adaptive immune response by producing T ...