In order to effectively prevent disease, the immune system must be able to distinguish between self and non-self, and to selectively target the latter. The process that removes immune cells that would ...

HAMMAR 1 first described cells, laden with fat granules, in the thymus cortex of ageing humans. More recently, a detailed description of the histo-chemical reactions of these cells in the mouse thymus ...

The first 3D images of a whole human thymus have been created using a specialized X-ray technique by researchers from UCL and the Francis Crick Institute. These highly-intricate images showed that ...

Berkeley - Biologists have a new tool to track and videotape cells moving about inside living tissue. Called two-photon laser-scanning microscopy, it has revealed, for example, the dramatic difference ...