A tale of names or how cells adapt to the environment.

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I remember when I started to read scientific literature, it was and continues to be filled with strange and complicated names. Often, such names are acronyms of experimental observations, settings, or both. For example, while studying a protein in the nucleus of activated B lymphocytes that binds to a conserved DNA region near the kappa light chain gene, the researchers came up with the name…