A small, fatty lump behind your breastbone may hold clues about how long you will live and how well your body fights cancer.

For something so small, the thymus has had an oddly quiet life in medicine. It sits behind the sternum and helps train T ...

A healthy thymus in adults is tied to longer life, reduced disease risk, and improved cancer treatment response.

It’s long been thought that an organ known as the thymus is crucial to development of the immune system. Early in life, it ensures diversity among immune cells called T cells that fight pathogens and ...

Health experts have highlighted 17 early warning signs of cancer that are often overlooked or mistaken for minor ailments, ...

Researchers have discovered stem cells in the human thymus. These cells represent a potential new target for research into immunological disorders, cancer, and immune system stimulation. The thymus ...

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As part of the immune response, the T cells are responsible for tracking down and destroying intruders and degenerated cells in the body. Their progenitors are formed in the bone marrow. Attracted by ...

An international research team led by the University of British Columbia (UBC) has uncovered for the first time the importance of a small gland tucked behind the sternum that works to prevent ...

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For the first time, scientists follow the development of individual immune cells in a living zebrafish embryo. T-cells are the immune system's security force. They seek out pathogens and rogue cells ...

A critical immune organ called the thymus shrinks rapidly with age, putting older individuals at greater risk for life-threatening infections. A new study reveals that thymus atrophy may stem from a ...