title: Memory T cells officially join the stem cell club.
abstract: In this issue of Immunity, Graef et al. (2014) demonstrate self-renewal and multipotency of a single CD62L(+) memory T cell across serial adoptive transfers and infection-driven re-expansions, providing evidence of true stemness within the T cell memory compartment.
authors.affiliation: Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Electronic address: gattinol@mail.nih.gov.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gattinoni
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018414:CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D019070:Cell Lineage / Q000276:immunology*; D007156:Immunologic Memory / Q000276:immunology*