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Study Identifies Immune ‘Protein Battery’ That Speeds Defense but May Fuel Aging Inflammation

Experiments in yeast suggest a subset of human death‑fold proteins can spontaneously assemble and trigger inflammatory cell death, highlighting an evolutionary trade‑off with potential therapeutic implications that remain untested in people.