College students discover new muscle attachment that could improve hip surgery

Fox News · Angelica Stabile · 2026-11-05 12:00 UTC

Two Tulane University sophomores found a previously unknown muscle in the hip during a cadaver lab session that even their professor couldn't identify.

Two undergraduate students at Tulane University in New Orleans discovered an anatomical feature that even their professor couldn’t initially identify.

Dominic Roy and Cooper Bruce were both 19-year-old college sophomores at the time of the finding in 2024.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Roy said it had been an ordinary day volunteering in the cadaver lab with R. Shane Tubbs, Ph.D., professor of neurosurgery and director of surgical anatomy at Tulane School of Medicine.

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