In world's first: whole, functional thymus grown in live mice and able to produce T cells
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Patients who need a bone marrow transplant and children who are born without a functioning thymus could all benefit.
Ways of boosting the thymus could also help elderly people. The organ shrinks with age and leads to a weaker immune system.
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