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 ...

BERLIN — The health of a cancer patient’s thymus could be linked to survival outcomes with immunotherapy, regardless of the tumor type and independent of established tumor-based biomarkers, suggests ...

Two new studies from investigators at Mass General Brigham challenge a decades-old assumption that the thymus, an organ best known for its role in establishing immune function in childhood, becomes ...

What if a small organ you rarely think about could predict how long you live? The thymus produces T cells (a type of immune cell), but it shrinks with age and this process is called thymic involution.

This study aimed to evaluate if clinical outcomes of MG after thymoma resection were associated with the presence of ectopic ...

It was thought that the thymus serves its purpose for the immune system early in life. Insights about the organ in adults reveal its importance for later well-being. Read the paper: Thymic health ...

Mass General Brigham researchers developed a deep-learning, AI model that analyzes CT scans to estimate thymic health—an indicator of immune system function. This image depicts a comparison between ...