A Czech scientist has contributed to understanding the function of the thymus—the training center of the immune system. T lymphocytes, key defensive cells, learn in the thymus not to mistake the ...

Thymus, a small and relatively unknown organ, may play a bigger role in the immune system of adults than was previously believed. With age, the glandular tissue in the thymus is replaced by fat, but, ...

The thymus is a crucial training ground for T-cells, the body's "white knights," where they learn to battle the various diseases they may encounter. Thymic function shrinks to nearly nothing as we age ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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 ...

Immune cells must learn not to attack the body itself. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) has discovered a ...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has announced up to $37 million to restore function to the thymus through funding ...

Zinc is a mineral that's known to boost the function of the immune system, and now scientists have learned more about how it works. Zinc seems to help cells in the immune system, T cells, fully mature ...

A new study could help solve a long-standing mystery into why a key immune organ in our bodies shrinks and loses its function as we get older. A WEHI study could help solve a long-standing mystery ...

The successful treatment in a brain-dead man could be used in living people, to prevent the immune system attacking donor ...