Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/10/20/scientists-discover-new-gland-in-humans-heads.html
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Shoot. I was hoping for latent drug glands.
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Is it really new, though?
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I hope the discovery contributes to new treatments for allergy, postnasal drip, or LPR sufferers since so much of those involve the nasopharynx.
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It’s always in the last place you look.
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Came to post this. Well done!
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Me too, as I suffer from something like that myself!
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Should we trust the anatomy claims of researchers who may or may not think the prostrate is in the cranium?
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Maybe that’s where the soul resides! Check it for funkiness.
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think the prostrate
Heh, you knocked me to the floor, face down!
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I think of it as NOS (New Old Stock).
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A salivary gland inside the human brain is god’s gift to zombies. It’s called “pre-digestion.”
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I blame mutant brain worms, possibly caught from the cats that domesticated humans.
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I’m still not sure the Scientist will get it.
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What can I say, I’m prone to to being kind of stiff, but I did get it
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Sneks make venom in modified salivary glands, so maybe this is a beginning for hoomans.
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It’s wild to me that there is undiscovered organs in the human body.
We have literally sliced bodies into paper-thin segments and photographed each one to create a layer-by-layer map of the human anatomy, as well as countless autopsies and X-rayed images.
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