The axolotl, a type of salamander that stays in the tadpole form throughout its life, is a master of regeneration. Axolotls ...

Learn how axolotls are able to fully regenerate their thymus, a small organ that trains immune cells to fight infections.

Cancer of the thymus gland is known by various names. Commonly it is simply referred to as thymus cancer. Alternatively, it is also called malignant thymoma (meaning thymus tumor) or thymic carcinoma.

Scientists have succeeded in regenerating a living organ for the first time. Researchers rebuilt the thymus -- an organ in the body located next to the heart that produces important immune cells. The ...

Researchers have long assumed that a mouse has only a single thymus. This organ, located directly over the heart, generates immune system components called T cells that protect the body from many ...

The result of this imbalance is that the cells which should protect the body begin instead to attack it, causing it to develop immune-system diseases such as Type 1 diabetes, hypothyroidism or celiac ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and at University College London (UCL) have rebuilt a human thymus using human stem cells and a bioengineered scaffold. The thymus is an essential organ in ...

BOSTON - Newborns face unique immunological challenges immediately after birth. As they depart a relatively sterile fetal environment, they are abruptly exposed to a multitude of foreign antigens, the ...

Lord Florey, the co-discoverer of penicillin, wrote in his textbook of pathology published in 1954: “Nothing of importance is known regarding the potentialities of lymphocytes other than that they ...

Researchers discover microbes regulate the development of specialized immune cells in the thymus that play a critical role in mucosal tolerance. Newborns face unique immunological challenges ...