Scientists Finally Discover the Function of the Human Appendix

Appendix is a vestigial organ; what we have studied during our undergraduate days. In a lighter vein it is told that the most common indication for appendicectomy is the presence of appendix!! (surgical friends, please excuse me!!). 

But now the researches say that “it acts as a safe house for good bacteria, which can be used to effectively reboot the gut following a bout of dysentery or cholera”.

Read this article. 

Hatched …

Medicine is like an ocean, someone said. But I don’t agree with!! Ocean has its own depth, limits and boundaries. But the medicine; no limits, no boundaries. Yesterday’s hypothesis today’s reality; today's reality tomorrow's history. What was right yesterday is proved wrong today and vice-versa.

Being student of pathology it was always fascinating for me know and understand new advents in the field laboratory medicine. In this limitlessly ever expanding science, as a diagnostician, it is essential to keep abreast with the recent trends and advances in the field of diagnostics. Immunology, molecular biology and genetics are the fields that are aggressively attended to in the area of laboratory medicine. 

It is virtually impossible to follow all the information that is flown in the modern day laboratory medicine. 
This blog is an attempt to share some of the recent trends and advances in the field of laboratory medicine gathered by me, without leaving the basics, precisely...!!