The human appendix is a small, muscular, vermiform or worm-shaped organ, averaging around 9cm in length, that is located at the junction of the small and large intestine. 1 According to comparative ...

Psychologist Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken take a journey around the human body. Today, they discover the truth about an organ long dismissed as useless: the appendix. Listen now.

A new research has revealed that the appendix acts as a “safe house” for the beneficial bacteria living in the human gut ... being flushed from the body,” Parker said.

And the appendix, long thought of as pointless in the human body, contained the substance that kills brain cells. Parkinson's UK said the findings were the most compelling evidence yet that the ...