ABOUT THIS EPISODE
The thymus is a small organ in the center of your chest that's responsible for getting your immune system's T cells ready to protect you from germs. Learn what we know and don't know about how the thymus works (and about some of the autoimmune conditions that can emerge when it doesn't work as expected) in today's episode of BrainStuff.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to BrainStuff, a production of iHeart Podcasts. Hey BrainStuff, Lauren Vogelbaum here. In the human body, some of our organs are in the spotlight. We're pretty attuned to what our heart and lungs and skin are doing at any given time because their status is easily observable. And when something goes wonky with them, it's fairly immediately obvious. Other organs are more the working quietly in the background types. They're no less important. They're all working together…
Speaker 1: Welcome to BrainStuff, a production of iHeart Podcasts. Hey BrainStuff, Lauren Vogelbaum here. In the human body, some of our organs are in the spotlight. We're pretty attuned to what our heart and lungs and skin are doing at any given time because their status is easily observable. And when something goes wonky with them, it's fairly immediately obvious. Other organs are more the working quietly in the background types. They're no less important. They're all working together…
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