darkSpyro

it is apparently called the interstitium (in-ter-STISH-um). it is/they are apparently a kind of tissue we have in our bodies that carries lymph which is what distributes white blood cells. the word means "between the other places." that is because they found it in the bile duct where they didn't think anything else was. apparently, the reason they never found it before, was because during the use of a normal biopsy method, the interstitium releases all of its fluid and looks like it's just another piece of tissue. they found it now because of a new procedure using lights and microscopes to light up cavities on a living specimen...!

read the whole thing here...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health...ld-help-n860601

it is totally worth the read (in fact it really isn't even a long article, and it's better than my quick breakdown). we have an organ that no one knew about until now...! goes to show you. :-)

that's cool!

Ooh, that’s super neat! I just finished learning about the immune system in AP Bio; I’ll have to ask my teacher if he’s heard of this.

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Ooh, that’s super neat! I just finished learning about the immune system in AP Bio; I’ll have to ask my teacher if he’s heard of this. :D

I know, right? tell us what he says if you do! i'm wondering how fast this will become something everyone's talking about, lol

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Majoring in Immunology, Histopathology and Medical Microbiology here.

Don't quote me on this, but from what I've read so far, this isn't "new" and it seems to be a definition change of an already known part of anatomy. Case in point, last year when the Mesentery was "discovered" it was known about (due to the lack of specialized equipment to see it) for centuries, but it was decided that its function and complexity characterized it as an organ.

Also, this excerpt from this book published in 2010 talks about a similar if not the same organ as the one in the new journal. So I suppose this is a case of the media using the words "new" and "organ" in their titles to attract attention.

However I could be wrong since I don't claim to know everything on this topic.

no, that's plenty possible. by new, I know in the article I posted it was actually in 2015 or something, but they did also state that they had no idea it existed because it was a new procedure entirely. from the mouths of the scientists rather than the media.

in this part...!



but I guess they could still be exaggerating, lol.

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Majoring in Immunology, Histopathology and Medical Microbiology here.

Don't quote me on this, but from what I've read so far, this isn't "new" and it seems to be a definition change of an already known part of anatomy. Case in point, last year when the Mesentery was "discovered" it was known about (due to the lack of specialized equipment to see it) for centuries, but it was decided that its function and complexity characterized it as an organ.

Also, this excerpt from this book published in 2010 talks about a similar if not the same organ as the one in the new journal. So I suppose this is a case of the media using the words "new" and "organ" in their titles to attract attention.

However I could be wrong since I don't claim to know everything on this topic.

seems to me that this article is just redefining a type of tissue as an organ rather than discovering a new organ. in other words they're being clever with semantics to create hype

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Majoring in Immunology, Histopathology and Medical Microbiology here.

Don't quote me on this, but from what I've read so far, this isn't "new" and it seems to be a definition change of an already known part of anatomy. Case in point, last year when the Mesentery was "discovered" it was known about (due to the lack of specialized equipment to see it) for centuries, but it was decided that its function and complexity characterized it as an organ.

Also, this excerpt from this book published in 2010 talks about a similar if not the same organ as the one in the new journal. So I suppose this is a case of the media using the words "new" and "organ" in their titles to attract attention.

However I could be wrong since I don't claim to know everything on this topic.

seems to me that this article is just redefining a type of tissue as an organ rather than discovering a new organ. in other words they're being clever with semantics to create hype

no, they're not.

unless they're straight up lying, because they said they never even noticed it wa there before. check my snip in my last post.

I'm a little confused because I thought scientists have known about interstitial space/fluid for awhile now

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I'm a little confused because I thought scientists have known about interstitial space/fluid for awhile now

that you are right about. in the article I know they said, at least, as far back as 2015 is when it actually happened. I believe they knew about the fluid itself, just not the actual organ that carries it throughout the body? because when they cut your tissue open, it flattens to the point of being almost invisible, but with the new procedure on a living specimen, they found it.