05 October 2023
Nurturing T-cells
The organ in your chest called the thymus – where the immune system's T cells mature – is composed of a number of cell types, including epithelial cells, vital for T-cell development. This study characterises epithelial stem cells and reveals their capacity to self-renew and organise, providing insight for prolonging T-cell activity as it declines with ageing and for tackling thymic disorders
Read the published research paper here
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