Over the last decade, experiments addressing thyroid hormone's role in the retina have generated a sizeable body of data. They have also inspired many more questions that will no doubt be tested in ...

Soot and dust alters thyroid development in fetuses before they are born in smoggy cities, raising concern about health impacts later in life, new research shows. Scientists focused on more than 2,000 ...

The generation of functional thyroid tissue from stem cells could allow the treatment of patients, which suffer from thyroid hormone deficiency due to defective function, or abnormal development of ...

Prenatal exposure to altered levels of vitamin D and/or thyroid hormones has the potential to impact child development long after birth, according to a new study by researchers at the Marshall ...

In 2012, we learned that functional thyroid tissue can be generated in vitro, and that thyroid hormones stimulate autophagy. Patients with defects in TRα have been identified, and ...

Researchers have discovered a new efficient way to generate thyroid cells, known as thyrocytes, using genetically modified embryonic stem cells. The findings, which appear in the journal Stem Cell ...

The thyroid is a small but important gland. Shaped like a butterfly, it’s located just below the Adam’s apple in the neck. The thyroid controls the body’s metabolism and maintains a general state of ...

An extensive body of epidemiological data supports the idea that thyroid disorders, including nodular disease and thyroid carcinoma, are more frequent in women than in men (Libutti, 2005). Several ...

Levels of thyroid hormone in babies influence insulin-secreting cells of the pancreas, according to a new study published in the Journal of Physiology. The team of scientists from the UK, US, and ...

Thyroid cancer is a type of cancer that particularly affects females. While its exact causes are largely unknown, multiple risk factors can contribute to its development, including genetic factors.

Based on in situ hybridization and hypothyroid studies, thyroid hormone appears to target photoreceptor development. The hormone may be acting in at least two ways. It could instruct neuronal ...