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t cell homeostasis - more interesting than it sounds

Look–we all know that T cells are important right?  I mean, it happens when someone is infected with HIV and loses just the subset of CD4+ T cells: AIDS.  There you have it–case closed. 
Okay, so in a healthy person, where do T cells come from?  Easy–the thymus.  But as we grow older, the thymus becomes [...]