The age-related decline of the immune system has several causes, but the involution of the thymus is an important one. The thymus is responsible for the production of mature T cells of the adaptive immune system, but the organ atrophies with age. The supply of new T cells falls off dramatically in later life, and...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON To help patients with muscle disorders, scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have engineered a new stem cell line to study the conversion of stem cells into muscle. Findings appeared in Cell Reports. IMAGE: UTHEALTH STEM CELL RESEARCHERS, FROM THE LEFT, ARE NADINE MATTHIAS, DVM; JIANBO WU, PH.D.; RADBOD DARABI, M.D., PH.D.; AND...
