Disposable No Longer: The Spleen Holds a Reservoir of Stem Cells

Denise L Faustman^1,2*, Claudia Giesecke⁵, Miriam Davis², Willem M Kühtreiber^1,2, Simon D Tran³, Thomas Dörner⁵ and Eric J Ley⁴

¹Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA, E-mail: giesecke@molgen.mpg.de

²Immunobiology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA, USA, E-mail: giesecke@molgen.mpg.de

³Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, E-mail: giesecke@molgen.mpg.de

⁴Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles CA, USA, E-mail: giesecke@molgen.mpg.de

⁵Department of Medicine and Rheumatology, Charity Hospital, Berlin, Germany, E-mail: giesecke@molgen.mpg.de