{"id":86906,"date":"2019-01-22T04:42:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T12:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-totally-new-type-of-blood-vessel-has-been-discovered-hidden-in-human-bones"},"modified":"2019-01-22T04:42:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T12:42:30","slug":"a-totally-new-type-of-blood-vessel-has-been-discovered-hidden-in-human-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-totally-new-type-of-blood-vessel-has-been-discovered-hidden-in-human-bones","title":{"rendered":"A Totally New Type of Blood Vessel Has Been Discovered Hidden in Human Bones"},"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\/Tn0mPMrEZPo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a whole network and we\u2019ve never seen these before!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We often think of bone as something that is structurally solid, especially its hard outer layer, called cortical bone.<\/p>\n<p>But a new discovery of never-before-seen hidden passages traversing these rigid organs in both animals and humans could lead to a rethink of the structure and function of basic skeletal anatomy.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, researchers in Germany report finding a previously undetected network of fine blood vessels that act like a secret tunnelling system inside bone, helping blood and immune cells spread efficiently and rapidly throughout the body.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hidden-network-of-secret-tunnels-found-in-bones-is-totally-crazy-scientists-say\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hidden-network-of-secret-tunnel...ntists-say<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a whole network and we\u2019ve never seen these before! We often think of bone as something that is structurally solid, especially its hard outer layer, called cortical bone. But a new discovery of never-before-seen hidden passages traversing these rigid organs in both animals and humans could lead to a rethink of the structure and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86906","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}