Immune cells must learn not to attack the body itself. A team of researchers has discovered a previously unknown mechanism behind this: other immune cells, the B cells, contribute to the 'training' of ...

Scientists have mapped the thymus, a gland in the chest that makes disease-fighting white blood cells, across the human life span. This “cell atlas” could help researchers understand how thymus cells ...

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 ...

Immune cells must learn not to attack the body itself. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) has discovered a ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zag Bio™, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering thymus-targeted medicines, today announced the company’s launch with $80 million in financing, ...

A mysterious organ that’s most active in childhood might play a previously underappreciated role in adults. In a study of almost 2,300 adults who underwent chest surgery, removing the thymus gland was ...

A thymectomy is a surgical procedure that involves removing the thymus gland. Surgeons perform a thymectomy to treat certain autoimmune diseases and cancers. The thymus is a small gland in the upper ...

The 3-month-old girl who lives in a bubble can’t get hugs from her grandparents. Cuddling, holding and just being in the same room are off-limits too for everyone except her mother and 6-year-old ...

One of the most baffling glands in the body is the thymus. It lies just below the neck and behind the top of the breastbone, and in all the centuries that man has been studying physiology, its purpose ...

(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Discovery and development of the first systemic therapeutics to deliver self-antigens directly to the thymus to harness the body's natural mechanism to induce central ...