The human appendix is a small, muscular ... some organs are classified as vestigial because they may not presently have a function within the body. These organs may have had significant roles in the ...

Apparently, we have quite a few body parts that we can, for the most part, live without. We know about the appendix. It's always been considered that useless organ that basically sits there.

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 ...