The forgotten organ that could predict how long you live
A long-overlooked organ may hold surprising clues to healthy aging and cancer survival. Researchers at Mass General Brigham used AI to analyze CT scans from tens of thousands of adults and found that people with healthier thymuses-a small immune-system organ once thought to become largely irrelevant after childhood-lived longer and had substantially lower risks of heart disease, cancer, and death.
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