Discovery of new muscle attachment by Tulane students sparks passion for careers in medicine
Tulane students have discovered what appears to be a new muscle attachment in some humans, a finding that was fueled by their intellectual curiosity and the guidance and mentorship of their professor.
The discovery — and its potential implications for surgeons and scholars — was outlined in the journal Clinical Anatomy.
The path to this new discovery began in the School of Medicine’s anatomy lab. Then-undergraduate students Cooper Bruce and Dominic Roy were examining cadaver sides when they spotted an unusual muscle that did not match the anatomical descriptions they had studied.