When an academic team in 2023 claimed to have found lymphatic vessels… — CAYOTSS — TG.ME

When an academic team in 2023 claimed to have found lymphatic vessels 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. Now, a team of scientists report in Cell that they see no evidence of lymphatic vessels in healthy bone, and poke holes in the previously published experiments. The authors of the original 2023 paper reject the criticisms in a simultaneously published rebuttal. The warring papers have had a rocky path to publication: The journal made an eleventh-hour decision to halt their posting online last month because of concerns about allegations in the rebuttal aimed at some of the critique’s authors. The rebuttal has since been heavily re-edited. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4qwDZKa