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Any other example of recently discovered body parts? I remember the recent discovery of a new tissue in the eye that is one cell wide which explain why it has b
by The_rationalist 6y ago
Any other example of recently discovered body parts?
I remember the recent discovery of a new tissue in the eye that is one cell wide which explain why it has been discovered only recently. I expect a few other remaining extremely small (in surface or in width) new tissues to remain undiscovered.
Which ask the question: would it be possible to cut an organ incrementally (ideally one cell width at a time (e.g with a powerful laser like for transistors)) it would enable an exhaustive search!
- neom 6y agoIn October we discovered a new organ in the throat: https://www.livescience.com/new-salivary-gland.html https://www.livescience.com/new-salivary-gland.html
- wiml 6y agoThe comments in this thread have a few, plus the subject of the thread itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24846026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24846026
- nitrogen 6y agoThere have been people who were (presumably with consent) frozen in gelatin after death, and then "sliced" (by shaving off layers) very thinly and imaged to create volumetric models. I don't know if they had enough resolution to see individual cells.
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- selimthegrim 6y agoI think there has been a bit of debate among retina specialists as to whether this constitutes a new tissue or a guy looking to name an already well known existing phenomenon after himself