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Science 14 April 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5771, pp. 206 - 207
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126403
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Thoracic Thymus, Exclusive No Longer

Harald von Boehmer

T cell production in mice occurs in the chest thymus. A similar second thymus in the neck has now been shown to also make T cells, raising questions about earlier experiments.

The author is at Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. E-mail: harald_von_boehmer{at}dfci.harvard.edu

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)