Women’s Six Nations: Wounded Ireland seeking redemption against Wales

Ireland: Flood; Parsons, Dalton, Higgins, O’Connor; O’Brien, Lane; Perry, Moloney-MacDonald, Djougang, Wall, Tuite, Hogan, King (capt) Wafer Replacements: Jones, McGrath, Cahill, Campbell, Monaghan, Moore, Whelan, Gallagher Wales: Powell; Dallavalle, Cox, Keight, J Joyce; George, Bevan; Pyrs, Jones, Tuipulotu, Metcalfe, Evans, Aiono, Lewis (capt), King Replacements: Reardon, Davies, Rose, John, A Joyce, Lockwood, Bell, Prothero Source…

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Thymic health under the microscope

In a recent paper in Nature, Bernatz and colleagues report a measure of the health of the thymus — an organ in the chest that produces T cells. The researchers derived a ‘thymic health’ score from an analysis of computed tomography (CT) images, and showed that a low score was associated with mortality and several…

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