Story at-a-glance Your thymus begins shrinking in your 20s, and it doesn’t stop. This small gland tucked behind your breastbone slowly transforms from active immune tissue into fat, and for years, scientists treated that decline as a harmless quirk of aging. New research suggests they had it backwards — that […]

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