Did you know there's a small gland in your chest, often called the "thymus" or the "happiness gland," that plays a crucial ...

A gland is an organ in your body that makes and releases substances such as hormones. The thymus gland is part of our lymphatic system. It’s involved in the development of a type of white blood cell ...

In this interview, News Medical speaks with Olivier Negre, Chief Scientific Officer at Smart Immune, about how immunotherapy ...

During infections, the immune system needs to distinguish foreign antigens that are expressed by invading bacteria and viruses from self-antigens that are expressed by cells of the body.

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 ...

Surprisingly, the thymus has been identified as a secondary source of PTH production. You have full access to this article via your institution. Is thymic PTH secretion, like PTH produced by the ...