The body’s most mysterious organ may play a key role in longevity and cancer

For decades, a mysterious, two-lobed organ nestled behind the breastbone has been overlooked by most physicians, thought to be a largely useless lump for most of human life: the thymus. The ancient Greeks posited this knob of tissue might be the seat of the soul. In the early 1960s, a Nobel laureat...

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