Is that a true organ?
What do you think?
Your body is lined with a network of fluid-filled cavities that—until now—were unknown to science. The team that made that discovery thinks the cavities qualify as a new human organ, which they’ve dubbed the “interstitium,” Live Science reports. The new organ was spotted when researchers looked at live human tissue with a new imaging technique. Previous methods have mostly looked at tissue that’s dead and drained of fluid, so the cavities weren’t visible, the team reports in Scientific Reports.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/scientists-say-they-ve-found-new-human-organ?utm_campaign=news_daily_2018-04-09&et_rid=389974365&et_cid=1962722
Dear Abdallah
The so called "intersticium" is a lymphatic dependent space with very little or no fluid inside it. It was known to anatomists for more than 200 years.
Discovery sometimes is not about discovering something new, but making a big fuzz about old things. Then it seems as a "new discovery".
Dear Abdallah
The so called "intersticium" is a lymphatic dependent space with very little or no fluid inside it. It was known to anatomists for more than 200 years.
Discovery sometimes is not about discovering something new, but making a big fuzz about old things. Then it seems as a "new discovery".
We've known about the intersticial space for quite some time now. Some scientist with a friend who writes for Sciencemag convinced his friend to write a story about his 'ground-breaking' research (I have no evidence to support this by the way).
Dear, this is science. Science has no end and a lot of discoveries are coming and will come. Lets appreciate.
The scientists believe that it may play an important part in how diseases spread around the body, including many cancers
It could be, but let look at criteria for agreeing a set of tissues to be an organ. Well to me science is open ended.... it it continuous, this research team have done a good job by discovering what they called a new organ, the said "intersticium could have been in existence for upto 200 years, but it may have not been studied extensively and this is what this research team just did. They have made a scientific conclusion based on their research which is subject to counter researches.
It is a welcomed trend in science.
the scientist believe that the new organ can play an important role in cancer therapy.
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