Are any of you familiar with the Thymus Gland? It's located in our upper chest behind the breast bone. When we automatically slap our chest with our open palm in a moment of surprise, we are actually ...

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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New research challenges the belief that the thymus gland is nonfunctional in adults. Thymectomy during surgery increases the risk of death and cancer. Reduced thymus activity leads to lower T cell ...

The thymus gland - which produces immune T cells before birth and during childhood - is often regarded as nonfunctional in adults, and it's sometimes removed during cardiac surgery for easier access ...

There's a small fatty gland that sits behind your sternum and is often said to be 'useless' in adulthood. A retrospective study, however, suggests the thymus gland is not nearly as expendable as ...

Left: Lab-grown thymus cells were created by cell programming. Right: The thymus cells were then transplanted onto a mouse kidney.--Courtesy of MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of ...