Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified stem cells in the human thymus for the first time. These cells represent a potential new target to understand immune diseases and cancer ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Analysis of thymus-gland tissue obtained by biopsy ... Cell-surface markers of peripheral-blood lymphocytes were determined by immunofluorescence antibody staining and flow cytometry (Epics ...