Despite all our medical advancements, there’s still a lot we're learning about our own anatomy.
microscopy,” Nedergaard said. This technique allows scientists to image humans and other animals while they’re alive, and visualize a group of cells—sometimes even watching them in action—by adding genes into the animals that tag a group of cells with fluorescent proteins. New discoveries like this get scientists excited about what the structures might mean for our understanding of the body.
In fact, we may be experiencing an anatomical renaissance where new, important structures are unintentionally discovered or rediscovered every few years. For most of medical history anatomists believed that the mesentery was just another part of the gut because it wasn’t one continuous structure. But after careful examination in 2016, surgeons Calvin Coffey and Peter O’Leary from the University of Limerick discovered that the mesenteryone continuous membrane, a structure separate from the intestines. Treating it as its own organ opened up new insights into chronic gut disorders.
Cserr died in 1994 due to a brain tumor. It took three decades, and paradigm shifts in neuroscience—that the brain isn’t connected to the rest of the immune system— until her findings were proven right.
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