Private weather agency, Skymet Weather, has forecast a ‘normal’ monsoon from June to September. The monsoon rainfall will be 3% more than the long-time average of 868.6 mm rainfall (with an ...

If we’re exposed to something repeatedly, it seems we can become desensitized to almost anything. An event that once evoked shock can come to seem routine; what once prompted alarm can ...

the addition of part of a thymus gland also helps teach the recipient’s immune system to recognize the tissue as a normal part of the body. The xenokidney was placed within a 58-year-old man who ...

Five years after surgery, 8.1% of patients who had a thymectomy died compared with 2.8% of those who did not have their thymus removed, equating to a 2.9-times higher risk of death.

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 ...

By studying people who had their thymus removed, we discovered that the thymus is absolutely required for health. If it isn't there, people's risk of dying and risk of cancer is at least double.

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 ...

Toward the end of my psychiatric residency, a friend pulled me aside to ask a question: Was he normal? During sex, Jack's girlfriend, Ann, let her Irish setter share the bed. Since the dog took an ...

They are crucial to resisting infection, and they are manufactured in your thymus, a small organ behind ... and his insulin levels fell back to normal. He recorded positive effects and published ...

For centuries, the thymus was dismissed as a vestigial organ. But in the 60s, researchers suggested that it was actually very important to T cells. Later work showed how important the thymus is to the ...

Nevertheless, survival will be influenced not only by the histology of the tumor but also by the staging ... can be illustrated in a rather diagrammatic way taking the normal thymus as a starting ...