The blood cells that manufacture antibodies trace their origin back to the thymus gland. It has recently been discovered that the gland also secretes a substance that enables the cells to make ...

A team of international researchers led by scientists at City of Hope have demonstrated a way to boost thymic function after ...

A team of international researchers led by scientists at City of Hope, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, with its National Medical ...

But there remain many unanswered questions about the structure and function of the thymus, both in health and disease, which ...

There is potential for Tregs and amphiregulin to be used in patients receiving cancer therapies to ameliorate immune function.

In children and adolescents, the thymus gland functions as a "school for T cells". The organ in our chest is where the precursors of those T cells that would later attack the body's own cells are ...

Between the lungs and in front of the heart sits a small gland ... in the thymus and the immune system.” He said the researchers were also surprised to find that the results extended to older mice, ...