By creating the first spatial atlas of the developing human thymus, a vital organ that trains immune cells to protect against ...

Our immune systems begin developing long before we are born. Immune cells are generated around 4-weeks after gestation and ...

In childhood, the thymus is known to play a critical role in developing the immune system. When the gland is removed at a ...

BEHIND your chest wall sits a small fatty gland called the thymus. The blob-like organ was thought to be useless in adults – ...

As countries in the northern hemisphere prepare for the low vitamin D season, those months during which sunlight is too weak ...

Insights gained from studying how thymus samples change before and after birth could help future researchers generate an ...

The most comprehensive map of the developing human thymus sheds light on how immune responses are built and maintained at ...

It shows how vitamin D deficiency can result in less protection against autoimmune diseases – where the body mistakenly ...

The first 3D images of a whole human thymus have been created using a specialized X-ray technique by researchers from University College London (UCL) and the Francis Crick Institute. The highly ...

During childhood, the thymus helps train immune cells to distinguish between the body's own tissues and harmful invaders. A vitamin D deficiency at that stage of life causes the thymus to age more ...

Recent results from the artificial thymus organoid program showed that fibroblasts and thymus-derived cell organoids can persist and function for over 50 days post-transplantation, with ...

These effects of vitamin D on T cell development were likely mediated by its effects on cells in the thymus, the gland that influences T cell maturation and response. The study elucidates a ...