There’s also a much rarer form of thymus gland cancer called thymic carcinoma. The thymus gland is in your chest, in between your lungs. A gland is an organ in your body that makes and releases ...

Removing the thymus in adult mice had no detrimental immunological effect, suggesting the organ was essential specifically for the development of the immune system. This was the first demonstration ...

In thymic epithelial cells, the research team upregulated a transcription factor called Forkhead box N1 (FOXN1), which had previously been implicated in age-related thymus shrinkage ... s analyses ...

He uses mouse models to study the thymus, the organ in which specialized immune cells called T cells mature. His goal is to apply his findings to develop new therapies to promote immunity in cancer ...

Recording of the visceral organ weights includes the heart, lungs, thymus, liver, spleen, adrenals, pancreas and kidneys in all cases and selected additional organs as required. Infants (children ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney has been removed from a transplant patient after it started losing function, according to ...