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by neuronic 2049 days ago
Confirmed. I worked in immunology and people were attempting to model gene expressions and how genes influence each other's expression to finally determine T-cell plasticity.

New cell types or pathways to become cell types are observed more often than you would think and it feels like we are still at the very foundation of understanding <insert field of biology>. It's scary how much we don't know while publically acting as if we figured out 99.98% of biology.

Explaining allergies and their origin is a good example here. It's just people throwing guesses around.