Lee became widely known for his thyme salve and his famous “thymus thump”: he’d apply generous amounts of his homemade salve over his thymus gland and then, Tarzan fashion, thump his upper ...

The thymus, credited as being the “seat of the soul” by Galen of Pergamon almost 2000 years ago, was later considered to be a “graveyard” for dying cells and was deemed to be “an ...

The goal is to generate thymus tissue that can be used to raise immune cells that will better tolerate donated organs. The thymus is a gland that sits at the top of the chest beneath the breastbone.