{"id":114772,"date":"2020-10-20T12:10:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/scientists-claim-to-discover-new-organ-in-human-skull"},"modified":"2020-10-20T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:10:46","slug":"scientists-claim-to-discover-new-organ-in-human-skull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/scientists-claim-to-discover-new-organ-in-human-skull","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Claim to Discover New Organ in Human Skull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RHAyoQF09X4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like they may be onto something,\u201d Dr. Valery Fitzhugh, a Rutgers University pathologist who didn\u2019t work on the study, told the <em>NYT<\/em>. \u201cIf it\u2019s real, it could change the way we look at disease in this region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fourth pair of salivary glands are better hidden than the other three, which are right beneath our skin and can be manipulated through the surface. So unless doctors were explicitly looking for them, it\u2019s feasible to see how the easily-damaged glands went undiscovered all this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe location is not very accessible, and you need very sensitive imaging to detect it,\u201d study author Dr. Wouter Vougel, a radiation oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Center, told the <em>NYT<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt seems like they may be onto something,\u201d Dr. Valery Fitzhugh, a Rutgers University pathologist who didn\u2019t work on the study, told the NYT. \u201cIf it\u2019s real, it could change the way we look at disease in this region.\u201d The fourth pair of salivary glands are better hidden than the other three, which are right [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}