From The Daily Beast
A study published in Scientific Reports on Tuesday suggests that a previously unknown organ has been found in the human body.Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-interstitium-the-largest-organ-we-never-knew-we-hadMore astonishingly, the paper puts forth the idea that this new organ is the largest by volume among all 80 organs—if what the researchers found is, in fact, an organ.
How could what’s being termed as the largest organ in our body escape notice for so long? A dogged trio of researchers stumbled upon it—despite the fact that they argue it’s a crucial part of our bodies and been there all along, right in front of us. It’s an astounding find—but not without controversy.
When I first met Neil Theise at a busy, east side Manhattan deli in the middle of the work day last November, I was embarrassingly late, having budgeted 15 minutes for what turned out to be an hour-long trip. Theise—unassuming in a scrunched shirt and jacket—cheerfully waited, but I was late enough that he’d started eating a hot, open-faced turkey sandwich with gravy, while jovially chatting with the wait staff (“I’ve been coming here since I was a kid!” he announced).
Between slurps of soup, Theise told me that he’d been working on several medical studies for the past few years. He was a Jewish Buddhist, a man who was at home with discussing the various veins of meditative practices in the same breath as the intricacies of liver pathology.
TL;DR: It's the connective tissue between everything that is now considered it own organ.
I'm not sure if this is a scientific discovery or taxonomic discovery? I mean they already knew there was connective tissue there it's just being presented as an organ now.
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