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At first I was incredulous that they would make this claim, since it makes it appear they either failed to follow the literature enough to notice other research
by etiam 9y ago
At first I was incredulous that they would make this claim, since it makes it appear they either failed to follow the literature enough to notice other researchers made the remarkable discovery of this system three years ago, or are trying history revisionism to claim that discovery as their own.
But I guess the operative word here is "human". The original research actually gets a small mention in the text body.
Another case of a small but valuable increment of research and nauseating treatment of the same by the spin department I guess.
- adaml_623 9y agoI would be helpful to supply a link to the research from 3 years ago that you are mentioning.
- dom0 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningeal_lymphatic_vessels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningeal_lymphatic_vessels > While it was initially believed that both the brain and meninges were devoid of lymphatic vasculature, a recent study by Antoine Louveau and Jonathan Kipnis at the University of Virginia, submitted in October 2014, and another confirming the discovery, by Aleksanteri Aspelund and Kari Alitalo at the University of Helsinki submitted in December 2014, identified and described the basic biology of the meningeal lymphatics using a combination of histological, live-imaging, and genetic tools. I'm not sure whether these are the same entities?
- etiam 9y agoFair point adaml_623. And yes, these are the right thing.
- jmcgough 9y agoI heard an NPR interview yesterday, and they were pretty clear that they based this on previous studies done by others that found it in rats. They had to spend 2-3 years figuring out the right technique to test for it in human cadavers, so their work was really in confirming that the same system is present in humans.