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T cell heterogeneity: firmly fixed, predominantly plastic or merely malleable?

This report highlights the lively debate and discussions on lymphocyte plasticity and/or determinism that occurred at the second Ringberg Colloquium in February 2008 in the Bavarian hills near Tegernsee, Germany.

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O'Shea, J., Hunter, C. & Germain, R. T cell heterogeneity: firmly fixed, predominantly plastic or merely malleable?. Nat Immunol 9, 450–453 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni0508-450

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