William Brogan, 47, from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, believes that if doctors had taken his symptoms more seriously the ...

The bone marrow and thymus are primary lymphoid tissues and the sites of lymphocyte development. The lymph nodes, spleen, tonsils and Peyer’s patches are examples of secondary lymphoid tissue.

The fundamental discovery of the key role that the thymus plays in the development of our immune system underpins our understanding of immunology, and has been essential to understanding diseases of ...

News & Views Published: August 2000 From parathyroid to thymus, via glial cells Rudi Balling & Reinhold G. Erben Nature Medicine 6, 860–861 (2000) Cite this article ...

Swollen lymph nodes in the armpit indicate that your body is responding to infection, injury, or disease. Learn what they look like and when to see a doctor.

Kobi Jones was at football training when he started to experience chest pain. Not long after that, he was being treated for a potentially cancerous tumour, all but unheard of in people of his age.

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Estrogen drastically reduces not only the size of the thymus, but also the bone marrow cavity as well, the sites where most deletion of autoreactive cells occur. B cells developing at alternative ...

A pioneering study, led by Professor Shuben Li from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, China, ...