According to a new study by researchers at Midwestern University, the appendix might serve an important bodily function. According to the study, led by Heather F. Smith, an associate professor at ...

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center say that the function of the frequently discarded appendix, an organ often credited with little importance and often dismissed as having no ...

Appendix Not a Useless Organ, as Formerly Thought -- Serves Critical Function, Say Researchers From Arizona and Duke U ...

Original Appendix Function Of course, other researchers (including Charles Darwin, the “father of evolution” himself) argue the appendix is merely a thing of the past. They call it a vestigial organ: ...

Function: The appendix is the small tail that comes off the end of the large intestine. It’s a vestig­ial organ located in the lower right quadrant of the abdomen that has lost its original ...

The appendix, being similar in size to the ureter, was meticulously repositioned using robotic-assisted surgery—a rarely performed but scientifically documented technique known as appendix ...

The exact function of the appendix is not definitively understood as it is not necessary for life, but it may have some role in immune function. Also some researchers believe that the appendix may ...

Back in 2007, a group of scientists were the first to suggest the appendix may act as the ‘safehouse’ for bacteria, and now Dr. Heather Smith from Midwestern University Arizona College has ...