As this happens, the T cell growth areas in the thymus are replaced with fatty tissue, diminishing T cell production and ...

Without our immune system, we wouldn't last very long: this complex network of organs and cells fights off pathogens and ...

The discovery of a protein’s contribution to the development of T-cells in the spleen and thymus could lead to ... elicit diverse effects on the immune system. They focused on one population ...

"The work we had done in the laboratory was based around using thymus along with heart transplantation in order to develop tolerance - so basically retraining the immune system and having the ...

The researchers looked at markers in the blood for T-cells, which help the immune system respond to new infections. These are produced in the thymus, a gland in the chest, which normally shrinks ...

Dr. Jarrod Dudakov studies how the immune system naturally recovers after damage, such as from common cancer therapies like chemotherapy and radiation. He uses mouse models to study the thymus, the ...

Recent advances in immunotherapy have revealed a promising frontier in Type 1 diabetes treatment: outsmarting rather than ...