Building early defenses

Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are considered as innate equivalents of T cells. Liu et al. used single-cell RNA sequencing to determine the proportions of ILCs in human fetal tissues, and additionally identified novel progenitor subsets undergoing ILC lineage specification in fetal liver.

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Liu et al. used single-cell RNA sequencing to determine the proportions of ILCs in human fetal tissues, and identified novel progenitor subsets undergoing ILC lineage specification in fetal liver.