The thymus sits in front of the heart and is where T cells mature; its age-related decline is associated with cancer, ...

By creating the first spatial atlas of the developing human thymus, a vital organ that trains immune cells to protect against infections and cancer, scientists have discovered that the foundation for ...

Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators at Ghent University, Belgium, the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and ...

In the first place, naïve T-lymphocytes are an initial stage of T cell residing in the thymus which have not yet encountered an antigen with affinity for its TCR. T cells that have been in contact ...

In this new study, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators tracked thymus and T cell development in samples ranging from eleven weeks post-conception to three years old ...

The thymus and T cells T cells are white blood cells ... Since the thymus is so important for immune system development during childhood, a thymectomy during childhood (before puberty) can ...

In a recent study published in Nature Cancer, researchers explore treatment resistance and relapse in T-cell acute ...