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Very likely. All of these illnesses are diseases of the cells. We're entering the golden age of immune cell science. You figure out what immune cells are causing disease and how to restore them.

Here the T cells are imbalanced and a specific protein is found to regulate the imbalance but the interferon is countering the protein's effects. Now you can target that in many ways and run all sorts of clinical trials.



It seems to me that as we've gone layers deeper into organic processes we've repeatedly recapitulated Galenic theory: "rebalancing" more and more precisely-targeted "humours". Not saying this is bad - in fact, quite the contrary: it seems like a necessary stage on the way to more-sophisticated mechanitistic understanding.




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