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06/25/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Scientists take super close-up shots of the human bone to understand why they are so strong

To truly understand the sturdiness of human bones, U.K. researchers have peered deeper into their structure than ever before. In a Scientific American article, they reported finding helix-shaped nanostructures twisting into and around equally thin spirals of fibrils. The nanostructures are made up of mineral crystallites, while fibrils are a type of protein collagen. These […]

05/10/2018 / By Jessica Dolores

Better cancer diagnostic tests in sight as scientists discover a previously unknown organ in our body

For decades, scientists have thought that they had discovered all of the human body’s organs and focused their research on them. But a new study by New York University (NYU) pathologists found that this is not so. They discovered a new organ, which they had missed using standard ways of examining the body’s complex internal system. The new organ is called the interstitium. It is located […]

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