Thursday, 5 January 2017

See the new organ discovered in human body





Mesentery: New organ discovered inside human body by scientists (and now there are 79 of them)
The finding opens up ‘a whole new area of science’
A digital representation of the small and large intestines and associated mesentery J Calvin Coffey, D Peter O’Leary, Henry Vandyke Carter
A new organ has been discovered hiding in plain sight inside the human body.
Known as the mesentery, it was previously thought to be just a few fragmented structures in the digestive system.

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But scientists have realised it is in fact one, continuous organ.
Although its function is still unclear, the discovery opens up “a whole new area of science,” according to J Calvin Coffey, a researcher at the University Hospital Limerick who first discovered it.
Source: independent.co.uk





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