Cycling comes with all kinds of benefits. It improves fitness and wellbeing, gives you more energy and is a cheaper – and ...

Physical activity helps stimulate the lymphatic system as the working muscles keep lymph moving and flowing by opening and closing lymphatic valves. The lymph nodes are where the body fights off ...

An excellent article in this Tuesday’s issue of The New York Times science section tackled that question. “Every day, ...

A team of international researchers led by scientists at City of Hope have demonstrated a way to boost thymic function after ...

There is potential for Tregs and amphiregulin to be used in patients receiving cancer therapies to ameliorate immune function.

A team of international researchers led by scientists at City of Hope, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, with its National Medical ...

Between the lungs and in front of the heart sits a small gland called the thymus that wields incredible power over human health by producing T cells, key components of our immune system.

The researchers were able to show that in the thymus gland of humans and mice not only the epithelial cells but also B cells express and present AQP4 to the T cell precursors. If the B cells were ...

Altogether, developing T cells migration, differentiation, maturation, proliferation, and survival are tightly regulated by a variety of hormones produced both locally and in other endocrine glands, ...