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The Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had

RIGHT THERE THE WHOLE TIME

The human body was thought to have 79 organs—until researchers stumbled on a strange phenomenon that could turn medicine and what we thought we knew about the body upside down.

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