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Let me rant about a propos this commentary👇. IMHO it illustrates a lot of the things that are wrong in . From the top we are told "researchers are trying to work out how these ubiquitous beads form and what they do" [the condensates]. I would argue the first question should be "do they do anything?", but biologists abandoned 'Ockham's razor' long ago. The most parsimonious explanation would be condensates have no function... 1/n


nature.com/articles/d41586-022

www.nature.comThe shape-shifting blobs that shook up cell biologyMore than a decade ago, scientists started finding peculiar droplets inside cells. Now researchers are trying to work out how these ubiquitous beads form and what they do.