A discovery published in Nature Immunology has shed light on why the immune system is less aggressive toward self-antigens, offering new opportunities to enhance cancer immunotherapy. Researchers from ...

Regulatory T cells protect the body from misdirected or overly excited immune responses. A new study highlights previously unknown characteristics of these cells that could guide the development of ...

Early thymic progenitor (ETP) cells, derived from hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow, enter the thymus at the cortical-medullary junction (CMJ), retaining multipotent differentiation ...