DURHAM, N.C. – Long denigrated as vestigial or useless, the appendix now appears to have a reason to be – as a “safe house” for the beneficial bacteria living in the human gut. Drawing upon a series ...

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For years, we thought the appendix was a pointless organ that only caused trouble. But science just proved otherwise! The human appendix is actually a “safe house” for good gut bacteria — a secret ...