After 150 Years We’re Finally Rediscovering the Rete Ovarii

Guess who labeled a vital organ in the female body as useless?

150 years ago anatomists marked off a structure attached to the ovary as a useless remnant with no function. Now in 2026, cell biologist Dilara Anbarci at Duke University, showed that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Undoing literal centuries of medical ignorance and dismissiveness one study at a time.

Source: Dilara N Anbarci Jennifer McKey Daniel S Levic Michel Bagnat Blanche Capel (2025) Rediscovering the rete ovarii, a