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Safe-crackers have vaults in their cells

This is the most amazing thing I've seen in awhile. Vaults are abundant in our cells and bigger than ribosomes and apparently I'm not the only biologist who had never heard of them. They seem to be important in defense against bacteria, but nobody understands them in detail yet, apparently.

Posted by R. Ford Denison on January 19, 2009 8:19 PM |

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