Whole section of a human thymus from a few-months-old patient. Polykeratin stem cells are sparsely located, expressing marker genes in red, white and green.

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 ...

“Our discovery—the regulatory T cell recirculation back to the thymus—promotes repair through a process that hasn’t been described before and represents a novel pathway to regeneration ...