A New Organ Has Been Discovered, And It's NOT What You Think!

You won’t be able to believe this! Scientists have discovered a new organ that was there, hiding in plain sight, the discovery is significant regarding knowing how cancer spreads in the body.

Layers long thought to be dense, connective tissue is a series of fluid-filled compartments researchers have termed the “interstitium.”
These are compartments that can be found beneath the skin, as well as lining the gut, lungs, blood vessels and muscles and they all can join together to form a network supported by a mesh of stable, flexible proteins.

The New Analysis, which was published in “Scientific Reports” and the idea is to identify all these compartments as one organ as a whole and try to understand the function.
The most incredible thing is that the interstitium has been there all the time, although it is one of the largest organs in the human body.

The team that discovered the organ tend to think that act as “shock absorbers” that can protect the body tissue from damage.
They noticed cavities that did not match any previously known human anatomy and approached New York University pathologist Dr. Neil Theise to ask for his expertise.

But why have they missed the organ for such a long time? It seems like traditional methods for examining the body tissues because the “fixing” method of assembling medical microscope slides involves draining away fluid - therefore destroying the organ’s structure.

The organ was considered for years to be only connective tissue.
The connective tissue wouldn’t be anything new, we’ve known about it for a long time and how it functions.
But at the same time, connective tissue typically has very few cells and instead is mostly constructed of various cartilage and other fibers that together form a stable structure that holds our organs in place. This is not only what the interstitium does.


Having come up with this discovery, the researchers also discovered that the structure is not only found in the bile duct but also surrounding a lot of vital internal organs.
The interstitium has something particular; the researchers saw that between the spread-out cells was a series of fluid-filled sacs. A set of healthy but flexible tissue filled with functioning proteins connected all these sacs.

This, the researchers deemed wasn’t the same as other connective tissue found throughout the body and thus could be its entity, which they dubbed the interstitium.
So it seems that the new organ, unlike more solid organs such as the heart or the liver, it is only a network of tissues that surrounds nearly every organ system in the body.

“This fixation artifact of collapse has made a fluid-filled tissue type throughout the body appear solid in biopsy slides for decades, and our results correct for this to expand the anatomy of most tissues,” said Dr. Theise.

The study of the organ was possible with a procedure called freezing biopsy, and they found out that the layer drains into the lymphatic system, the network that transports the lymph, which is involved in the body’s immune system response.

But the new organ is not always lovely, the researchers have found that cancer cells from tumors could make their way through the layers an into the lymphatic system.
While providing a large highway for the cancer cells, the interstitium may be one of the causes of cancer spreading around the body.

This new and incredible discovery may be one of the most significant findings of our times, the new organ may shed some light regarding cancer treatments and recovery. The work is cut out for the scientists to know how the new organ works and how we can also make it work in the right direction towards human health.

“This finding has potential to drive dramatic advances in medicine, including the possibility that the direct sampling of interstitial fluid may become a powerful diagnostic tool,” said

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