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Wen Zhou1, Ellen V Rothenberg1
1Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Immunity
|November 21, 2019
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In this issue of Immunity, Zeng et al. use single-cell RNA sequencing analyses of rare samples to shed light on the emergence of thymic stromal cell types, the first developing T lymphocytes, and their possible pre-thymic precursors in the early human fetus.
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