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Researchers Just Found the Appendix Is a 'Safe House' for Beneficial Gut Bacteria With 200 Million Neurons Inside, It's Not Useless

The appendix is a small organ situated between the small and large intestines. For a long time, scientists didn't know its function and deemed it useless. In fact, it was seen as potentially dangerous ...
Arizona Daily Star

Appendix is useful after all, scientists say

Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut. That's the theory from surgeons and ...
NPR

Your appendix is not, in fact, useless. This anatomy professor explains

It was the first day of spring break in 1992 in Phoenix, and 12-year-old Heather Smith was excited for her family's upcoming ski trip. But before Smith and her family had even packed their snow pants, ...
Tampa Bay Times

YOUR APPENDIX HAS A PURPOSE AFTER ALL

Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut. That's the theory from surgeons and ...
Richmond

Appendix a 'safe house' for bacteria, study says

WASHINGTON -- Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut. That's the theory from ...
The Hindu

Your appendix plays a bigger role in your health than you may think

For decades, the human appendix was casually dismissed as a “useless” vestige. Modern research and clinical experience, however, suggest that this small, narrow pouch, attached to the cecum in the ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Scientists find appendix's job

WASHINGTON (AP) | Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut. That's the theory from ...