Data from several recent studies on the dynamics of regulatory T cells — which suppress excessive immune responses — do not add up. Collective analysis of the observations may reconcile the differences between them.
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Sakaguchi, S. Conditional stability of T cells. Nature 468, 41–42 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468041a
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