Rewiring immunity: generating a functional thymus from hESCs… are we there yet?

Boyd, Richard L; Soh, Chew-Li; Boyd, Nicholas R; Stanley, Edouard G; Chidgey, Ann P · Cell Stem Cell · 2013

editorial · Level V

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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).

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