Imagine that one day, instead of folding your clean laundry, you just dump it on your bed and, to your amazement, your shirts, sheets, and towels start folding themselves on their own. A minute later, the disorderly mound has turned into a neat pile of perfectly folded items. Don’t expect to see this outside of a Harry Potter movie, but something just as impressive happens all the time inside your cells.
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