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A ‘theory of everything’ for disease?
Theoretical physicists have long sought a grand “theory of everything,” which would account for all the physical phenomena in the universe by unifying Einstein’s general relativity with the so-called standard model based on quantum mechanics. In recent years, some biomedical scientists, including School of Medicine immunobiologists Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D., and Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Ph.D., have proposed that deeply understanding inflammatory processes might provide similar unifying insights into