The thymus gland is a soft organ that is large in babies but begins to shrink after puberty. Once you reach adulthood, your thymus gland becomes relatively small. Your thymus is a fully develope ...

The thymus gland helps the development of T-cells, which fight foreign substances in the body. It teaches these immune cells what is "self" and what isn't, and therefore what can be attacked.

Deletion of the ‘glial cells missing-2’ gene in mice disrupts development of the parathyroid glands but does not ... Surprisingly, the thymus has been identified as a secondary source of ...