In a new study, researchers claim that interstitium -- fluid-filled spaces in tissue that are connected throughout the body -- should be considered a new “organ” and that these spaces may play ...

What’s new in this study is that the authors are arguing that a specific type of connective tissue is connected within a greater network — the interstitium. This organ, the authors say ...

Remarkably, doctors and scientists routinely encountered the interstitium but were taught to ignore it. Surgeons regularly removed and discarded portions of this body-wide net and pathologists wrote ...

But now, researchers say they've done just that: They've found a network of fluid-filled spaces in tissue that hadn't been seen before ... this network of fluid-filled spaces an organ — the ...

The interstitium ... We had torn the tissue. But now looking at it, we realized, no, those are the remnants of the big spaces. The artifact is actually the real thing. And what we thought was real– ...

As became apparent during the whole mesentery craze, there’s no real definition for what ... Whether you call the interstitium an organ, or refuse to bestow that definition on this hunk of tissue, you ...

Scientists are reporting important roles for the network of connective tissue. Did scientists discover a new organ? The short answer is no, the interstitium is not an "undiscovered organ," but ...

In 2018, the same research team demonstrated the existence of these fluid-filled spaces, which they dubbed the interstitium, challenging conventional wisdom that the space between cells is dense ...