Append and Cite Us

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Scientists have never been certain what the appendix used to do -- and if it is still, in fact, useless. On Jan. 9, a team of researchers led by scientists at Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine published a review study proposing an answer: the appendix is a secondary immune function that both catalyzes immune cell responses and floods your gut with beneficial bacteria when they've been depleted. And it still plays that role, in a limited fashion, in human body function. Anthony and Jeff come to terms with their own fear of appendicitis and if knowing the organ's function changes their view. Plus, did scientists just find a whole new organ in the body?

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0:00.0	Hey, you go to that PacSouth. We're going to that PacSouth.
0:02.5	See us at the PacSouth. We're going to be in the cactus theater on Saturday at 4 p.m.
0:09.7	That's January 28th.
0:11.7	27th?
0:12.7	Oh.
0:13.7	Look at Mr. and Ford.
0:15.7	Yeah, 4 p.m. Saturday.
0:30.0	We need to paste your eyes away.
0:33.9	No kidding, right?
0:34.9	Yeah. How do we get Louis Pasteur up in my wife?
0:37.0	This is way up concerns. I just cannot.
0:42.2	I have the new car boning.
0:43.6	Hello, concerned citizens.
0:45.7	We got a toofur today.
0:47.2	A toofur.
0:48.2	A toofur.
0:49.2	Um, this is, uh, we're going to two stories. Two, yes, two stories in one show.
0:54.6	Because we got a lot of Oregon related stories lately.
0:57.0	Some organs.
0:58.0	We got a lot of Oregon related stories.
1:00.0	We got a lot of organs on ice in my trunk.
1:02.5	Just organs everywhere.
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