It's such a tease seeing headlines like these as someone with a bone disease. I've started following grants for research on my illness 15 years ago, and every few years they reapply having discovered a tiny part of the process necessary to understand the disease and develop a therapy.
As a scientist I know things take time and hard, dedicated, work but as a patient it's soul-draining to see your life pass you by while waiting for these discoveries to materialize into cures or drugs.
An entire new organ was discovered last year:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubarial_salivary_gland" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubarial_salivary_gland</a>
> This, together with the evidence of the new re-fusion processes observed by intravital imaging, convinced us that we had discovered a new cell type, which we called osteomorphs, after the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.<p>This goes with the gene named after Sonic the Hedgehog I guess. Supposedly this kind of name makes it difficult for doctors when they have to tell people they have cancer caused by a sonic hedgehog mutation.
The only thing I got from this article is now the cookies banner with slide from the right side of the screen and completely block the text on one side making it impossible to read through while ignoring cookie banner. So I just left the site
Biologists are using the genome expression in each kind of tissue to refine the number of tissues. These were counted observationally in the past. Some suspect the count could as much as triple this way.