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, 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 ...

A first-of-its kind, a heart-thymus transplant, is a success A pediatric surgery team at Duke University successfully performed a heart transplant and a thymus tissue transplant from the same donor.

To address this issue, we sectioned a whole thymus lobe into 300 consecutive slices, and stained roughly every fifth section with May–Grünwald–Giemsa to identify the location of each ...

The first 3D images of a whole human thymus have been created using a specialized X-ray technique by researchers from University College London (UCL) and the Francis Crick Institute. The highly ...

UCSF research reveals new functions for Hassall’s corpuscles (pictured) in the thymus, a 150-year-old medical mystery. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. UC San Francisco researchers were recently surprised ...

The results are published in the journal Nature. Female sex hormones instruct the thymus, a central organ of the immune system, to produce specialized cells called "Tregs" to deal with ...