One of the defining characteristics of chordates and other deuterostomes is the presence of gill slits, which first appeared in the acorn worm and persist vestigially in the human embryo. An ...

The genome sequences of two species of acorn worm are the first genomes, which retain similarities to the first animals to evolve pharyngeal or gill slits. The newly sequenced genomes of two marine ...

Researchers have found previously unnoticed salivary glands in the human throat. The team from The Netherlands Cancer Institute, which published findings in Radiotherapy and Oncology, coined the new ...

It's hard to imagine there is a part of the human body that's gone unnoticed by doctors after centuries of medical research. But that's exactly what a group of scientists from the Netherlands believe.

Biostage CEO Jim McGorry (left) and Chief Medical Officer Saverio La Francesca hold one of the company's synthetic scaffolds that have worked to regrow esophaguses in pigs. PHOTO/LAURA FINALDI Under ...

Scientists in the Netherlands, who were carrying out research on prostate cancer, say they have identified a potential new organ in the human throat! The researchers were testing a new cancer scan ...

There has been a possible groundbreaking discovery in the human body as medical researchers have found a new organ in the throat. Scientists from the Netherlands believe they have uncovered a pair of ...