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Shades of grey — the blurring view of innate and adaptive immunity

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This special issue of Nature Reviews Immunology focuses on the types of lymphocyte that blur the traditional boundaries between the innate and adaptive immune systems. The development and functional properties of 'innate-like' B and T cells and natural killer (NK) cells are reviewed and the emerging understanding of newly discovered innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) is considered.

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L.L.L. is an American Cancer Society Professor and is supported by US National Institutes of Health grants AI066897, AI068129 and CA095137.

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  1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Cancer Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, 94143, California, USA

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Lanier, L. Shades of grey — the blurring view of innate and adaptive immunity. Nat Rev Immunol 13, 73–74 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nri3389

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