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I wonder how many organs are left to find. Was only recently they added the mesentery to the list.
by OrganicMSG 9y ago
I wonder how many organs are left to find. Was only recently they added the mesentery to the list.
- excalibur 9y agoI don't know that it's so much about "finding" organs anymore, it's more a process of "defining" them.
- pietroglyph 9y agoThis article doesn't seem to outline a redefinition, but an actual discovery as a result of better imaging technology. It makes you wonder what other things we can only see in a living body.
- killjoywashere 9y agoIt's more of a novel way of seeing what we knew was there, and then some willfully clever writing to make the scientifically routine sound new again. The interstitial space and it's role in carrying debris, waste products, and cells into the lymphatic system is well described, indeed a fundamental premise of physiology in health and disease. Extracellular fluid constitutes about 1/3 of a human's fluid volume. Do you really think we haven't thought about where that 15 liters is? As was said on the other thread, this is like buying the Hubble Space Telescope, pointing it between Mars and Jupiter and breathlessly reporting a new kind of planet that consists of a lot of rocks spread in an orbital ring.
- adventured 9y agoI thought it was pretty astounding two years ago when researchers at UVA found a direct link between the brain and immune system that wasn't previously known to exist. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/important-link-between-the-brain-and-immune-system-found/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/important-link-be...