which is the most complicated organ in the body to research about?

Question: which is the most complicated organ in the body to research about?
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Asked by anon-181149 on 5 Jun 2018.
- Hannah Farley answered on 5 Jun 2018:
  
  I would probably say the brain? Just because there are a lot of things we don’t understand and I think it’s weird that we have to think about how we are able to think.
- Joey Shepherd answered on 5 Jun 2018:
  
  That’s difficult , beacuse all organs and tissues become more and more complex as you find out more about them. But like Hannah I think the brain because there is so much we don’t know about how it works.
- David Grainger answered on 5 Jun 2018:
  
  I would agree with Hannah, probably the brain. It is so hugely complex with lots of different types of cells all interacting using chemicals and electricity and somehow that makes consciousness?! Blows my mind.
- Camille Parsons answered on 5 Jun 2018:
  
  I also agree with Hannah the brain is very complex, however I also think the placenta (which is an organ that develops to surround the baby during pregnancy). This organ provides oxygen and nutrients to the growing baby, as well as removes waste products from the baby bloods but there is still a lot we don’t understand about how this organ works, and yet it’s complex and amazing enough to help a baby grow!
- Alex Haragan answered on 5 Jun 2018:
  
  You could successfully argue we know very little about every organ. Certainly we have a lot to learn about all of them.
  To actually research an organ though, you need to be able to do lots with it. In terms of the mechanical functions of organs, we can replicate most of these (imperfectly) with machines – during surgery or on very sick people in ITU we can artificially do the job of kidneys, lungs, heart, liver (sort of). We can create a similar substance to skin.
  The brain though? We haven’t gotten anywhere close to that. Its probably the most complex organ, and certainly the one we know least about.
- Ashley Akbari answered on 5 Jun 2018:
  
  Some great answers and i would say all have their complexities and unknowns, with many things we still do not understand fully
- Helen Cooper answered on 5 Jun 2018:
  
  Medical research continues because we still don’t understand how everything works within the body. I know that some researchers I work with have been looking at the brain for over 10 years and are still learning something new every day!
- Laura Hemming answered on 6 Jun 2018:
  
  The brain gets my vote!
- Joanne Sharpe answered on 15 Jun 2018:
  
  As a neuroscientist I know all too well the complexities of the brain! There are so many things we don’t understand, and this makes diseases of the brain such as dementia so hard to treat. But all organs have their own complexities! The human body is a wonderful thing.

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