You didn't know the skin was an organ?
Seems this thing collapses when you cut into it so scientists never really knew it was there. Now, with amazing new techniques, they've found it and it's presence may have astonishing results for treatment of bodily ills.
Researchers previously thought the area between other organs and tissues in our body was largely solid, comprised of structural supportive proteins known as collagen, as well as stretchier elastin connective proteins.
But an analysis using a newer kind of imaging technology (called probe-based confocal laser endomicrosopy) revealed that interconnected fluid-filled sacs run through the collagen and elastin structures.
This is interesting even if you're not the scientist-type @ The largest organ in the body may have just been discovered — and it could reshape our understanding of human anatomy
