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The suicide in the thymus, a twisted trail

How autoreactive thymocytes die remains a question that has not been fully answered. New results supporting a role for the death ligand TRAIL may take us a step closer to unraveling this mystery.

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Figure 1: Following a twisted trail to death.

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Green, D. The suicide in the thymus, a twisted trail. Nat Immunol 4, 207–208 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni0303-207

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