Rewiring immunity: generating a functional thymus from hESCs… are we there yet?
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Abstract
Two papers in this issue of Cell Stem Cell have made a significant advance in solving one of the great challenges of modern immunology-resurrecting thymus function through the induction of thymus epithelial cells (TECs) by directed differentiation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).
Medical subject headings
- Cell Differentiation
- Cellular Microenvironment
- Embryonic Stem Cells
- Epithelial Cells
- Epithelium
- T-Lymphocytes
- Thymus Gland