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Calling them a “prime suspect” is both true and the wrong way around.

They are ubiquitous and necessary to maintain normal physiological conditions / normal function, across all cell types and in all systems.

This is the reason why we are discovering that they play important roles in pathology: it’s because they’re an important part of the machinery, and things can go wrong with any part of machinery.



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