You are invited to a special daytime edition of the Doctors’ Lounge series.
On Earth Day, we are asked to reflect on the interconnectedness of life on this planet.
It is also a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the interconnectedness of life within the human body.
Recent research through microanatomic mapping has reframed the interstitium as a body-wide network composed of three domains: the intercellular space, the pericapillary space, and the fascial interstitia, which is now considered an integrated organ system.
If you haven’t given much thought to fascia since seeing it as the stuff that got in the way of your dissection in first-year medical school, this will be your opportunity for a radical update of your understanding of what is holding us together.
Dr Theise is Adjunct Professor of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, with a research career spanning chronic liver disease, cancer biology, adult stem cells, and the anatomy of the human interstitium. He is also the author of Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness and Being, long-listed for the 2023 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and the forthcoming memoir Sarah in the In Between (Spiegel & Grau, 2026).
Related: https://radiolab.org/podcast/interstitium
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