科学家质疑骨骼中发现淋巴管的意外结果

Conflicting data prompt spat, and last-minute publication delay, in prominent journal CATHERINE OFFORD When an academic team in 2023 claimed to have found lymphatic vessels, tiny tubes in the body that carry immune cells and drain fluid from tissues, inside mouse and human bones, other biologists were intrigued. The discovery contradicted a widely held belief that bone was one of the few places these vessels didn’t penetrate. The group’s study, published in Cell, also suggested the tubes help bone regenerate after injury—a finding with obvious medical relevance. Lymphatic tubes have long been documented on the outside edges of healthy bone. …