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Two landmark studies published in Nature in March 2026, analyzing over 31,000 patients using AI-powered CT scan analysis, found that adults with healthy thymus glands had up to 63% lower risk of cardiovascular death and 50% lower all-cause mortality. The findings challenge decades of medical orthodoxy that dismissed the thymus as irrelevant after puberty, and raise the prospect that thymic health could become a new tool for predicting cancer immunotherapy outcomes and guiding personalized medicine — though researchers caution that correlation has not yet been established as causation.