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Missing Piece of the Thymus/Immune System Puzzle May Be Age
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Fusion42 · 11 September 2026 · Fusion42 review
A new study links the thymus hormone thymulin to reducing age-related inflammation (inflammaging) and improving cancer immunotherapy responses, highlighting the need to use aged models in preclinical immunotherapy research.
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You must now include aged models in immunotherapy studies to capture age-related effects on treatment success. The deficiencies in youthful test systems have kept reality hidden, and correcting this opens new product and trial design routes.
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