Did you know there's a small gland in your chest, often called the "thymus" or the "happiness gland," that plays a crucial ...

The thymus gland, which sits behind your sternum, is often considered to be useless once you reach adulthood. However, it may serve more of a purpose than experts originally thought. Researchers ...

its purpose has been unclear. It has hitherto fallen to butchers, marketing the thymus of the lamb and calf as the “neck sweetbread,” to give the gland its only obvious usefulness. Now a ...

Children who were stripped of their Thymus glands during complex heart surgery may be more susceptible to all forms of disease and illness, our investigation has revealed. Scandal-hit Alder Hey ...

Cancer of the thymus gland is rare. Most cancers that start in the thymus gland are called thymomas. There’s also a much rarer form of thymus gland cancer called thymic carcinoma. The thymus gland is ...

Deletion of the ‘glial cells missing-2’ gene in mice disrupts development of the parathyroid glands but does not ... Surprisingly, the thymus has been identified as a secondary source of ...