Origins of immune system mapped, opening doors for new cancer immunotherapies
Friday, February 21, 2020 - 11:30
in Health & Medicine
A first cell atlas of the human thymus gland could lead to new immune therapies to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases. Researchers mapped thymus tissue through the human lifespan to understand how it develops and makes vital immune cells called T cells. In the future, this information could help researchers to generate an artificial thymus and engineer improved therapeutic T cells.