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Which part of the human body is 'useless'?
Professor Robert Shmerling at Harvard Medical School has just released his views on the least important part of the human body.
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Is the intestine redundant?
Recently, scientists found that the appendix has an important role in the fetus and in young people. Endocrine cells appear in the appendix of the fetus around the 11th…
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Cut the appendix without surgery
Up to now, surgical doctors still need to use cutlery when having surgery in the abdominal area. But now scientists are offering a whole new way of surgical removal of t…