stackyFACTSWhen a gene is transcribed, massive chunks of useless code called introns are sliced out and thrown away before the protein is ever built. Your pristine DNA is mostly composed of molecular spam.
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Instead of fighting microbes one on one, your internal defenses prefer to heavily cheat. Y-shaped proteins latch onto multiple pathogens at once, gluing them…
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