spicy pancake@lemmy.ziptoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL about vaults, the largest structures in our cells. No one knows what they're for.English
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2 days agothat wouldn’t be an unfounded hypothesis. surface area to volume ratio is extremely important in cells. by artificially lowering the volume (by taking up a lot of it with a structure) the cell can make better use of its existing surface area
though it looks like the volume of these structures aren’t that large comparatively
surprised nobody’s said Freebird yet