Your thymus plays a major role in helping your immune system defend your body. The main thymus gland function is to process and teach your T cells how to identify and get rid of germs and other ...

Syanne Landron, born in August without T cells, has been approved for an implant procedure that could save her life.

The thymus is between your lungs ... Your endocrine system is a network of glands in your body that make the hormones that help your cells talk to each other. Your endocrine system is ...

The thymus gland is located beneath the breastbone, or sternum. It is the main organ responsible for the production and maturing of immune cells or lymphocytes, which protect the body from ...

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (KCAL/KCBS) - A California family of four has been quarantined for months while awaiting a lifesaving implant for their baby, who has basically no immune system. The Landron ...

The tissue serves as the thymus gland and is intended to produce mature ... it could take up to two years for her immunities to be built. Her body could reject the new tissue.

Doctors think the condition came because the lack of a thymus gland means the few T cells her body developed have not done what they're supposed to do. They went "rogue," Marilyn said.