Post ApTG3rnZCc6ko26m4O by liohong@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #ApTG3qhrGLwnQ2QhX6 by jonny@neuromatch.social
       2024-12-15T00:46:14Z
       
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       I never heard of these whole ass deeply evolutionarily preserved organelles in my cell bio class. Anyone know what these dang things are?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_(organelle)
       
 (DIR) Post #ApTG3rnZCc6ko26m4O by liohong@mastodon.social
       2024-12-20T07:27:37Z
       
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       @jonny My former supervisor mentioned these to me last year as well, and while my interests lay elsewhere, the sheer mystery of vaults did leave me pondering the limitations of the modern scientific pursuit
       
 (DIR) Post #ApTG3sfRyHD3V9Jo3c by GeePawHill@mastodon.social
       2024-12-20T08:07:44Z
       
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       @liohong @jonny Okay, but, for the record, it's actually kinda glorious how little we understand.Like, in my case, the passive "hard-wired" immune system is complicated as hell. But the active "game-time" immune system is just flat fucking insane.Or, the organic explanation for what I am quite confident was organic "major depressive disorder" that I underwent for 30 years. (Now in remission for almost a decade, and we do not have any idea why.)On my good days, it's a world of wonder.
       
 (DIR) Post #ApTG3tFbnq8JJIEgPw by jonny@neuromatch.social
       2024-12-20T08:12:10Z
       
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       @GeePawHill @liohong i also love the mystery of biology, it's the whole reason i hang with biologists. i do think we should probably figure out what an organelle that many cells across evolutionary time spend a shitload of resources to produce does at least on a basic level