All I know is that Vaults are NOT the powerhouse of the cell.
What if they’re only to make the cells bigger so our bodies don’t need to make so many of them to reach a total size as large as we are?
Should be called the chungus then
I find it fascinating that researchers have been able to acquire so much structural details about vaults without figuring out their purpose. It’s possible that they’re bits of evolutionary garbage - things that don’t contribute to survival in any discernible way, but also don’t hurt anything, so natural selection doesn’t get rid of them.
Cells make too many of them to not have a purpose. There is a large energy cost to manufacturing 10k-100k per cell. That’s enough for selection to remove them if they were useless.
What’s probably going on is they have an important but uncommon purpose. Like a fire extinguisher. They are in most buildings but a lot of people will never see a situation where one is needed.
They’re for storing the molecular correlates of trauma, obviously :3
Nice
( N.B. : Typo : “TIL about vaults, the largest structures intheour cells. No one knows what they’re for.” )Whoops! Thanks!
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