Newly Discovered ‘Organ’ Could Influence Cancer Spread
Thanks to a laser-equipped mini-microscope developed by a French start-up, scientists have discovered a previously undetected feature of the human anatomy that could help explain why some cancers spread so quickly.
Nobody was looking for the interstitium, as the new quasi-organ is called, because no one knew it was there, at least not in complex form revealed in a study published this week.
As with many breakthroughs in medicine and science, it was to paraphrase Louis Pasteur’s oft-quoted dictum a case of chance favouring the prepared.