Hot Testes, Blasting Diabetes, Robo Fish Cleans Ocean

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

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4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Come along with us to figure out how heating up testicles could be an effective male contraceptive, how ultrasounds might help us cure Type 2 diabetes, and how a robotic fish might soon clean our oceans.

Heating up testes isn’t what you think.

“Heating Up Testicles Could Solve a Major Male Contraceptive Issue” by Jeffrey Mo
- https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/heating-up-testicles
“Magnetic Testis Targeting and Magnetic Hyperthermia for Noninvasive, Controllable Male Contraception via Intravenous Administration” by Weihua Ding, et al.
- https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02181

Type 2 diabetes potential cure.

“Diabetes Successfully Treated Using Ultrasound in Preclinical Study” by Rich Haridy
- https://newatlas.com/medical/focused-ultrasound-prevents-reverses-diabetes-ge-yale/
“Treating Diabetes Without Drugs? Novel Non-Pharmacological Treatments on the Horizon” by Jane E. Dee
- https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/treating-diabetes-without-drugs-novel-non-pharmacologic-treatments-on-the-horizon/
“Ultrasound: The Future of Diabetes Treatment?” by Tim Newman
- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325160

Robotic fish are the future.

“Scientists unveil bionic robo-fish to remove microplastics from seas” by Sofia Quaglia
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/22/scientists-unveil-bionic-robo-fish-to-remove-microplastics-from-seas
“Robust, Healable, Self-Locomotive Integrated Robots Enabled by Noncovalent Assembled Gradient Nanostructure” by Yuyan Wang, Gehong Su, Jin Li, Quanquan Guo, Yinggang Miao, and Xinxing Zhang
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/22/scientists-unveil-bionic-robo-fish-to-remove-microplastics-from-seas#:~:text=is%20described%20in-,a%20research%20paper,-in%20the%20journal

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:09.2	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. I'm Nate.
0:12.3	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time
0:14.6	welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:18.1	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how heating up
0:22.3	testicles could be an effective male
0:24.2	contraceptive, how ultrasound might help us cure type 2 diabetes, and how a robotic
0:29.6	fish might soon clean our oceans. Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:35.0	Okay, Callie, we've talked about male birth control before.
0:39.0	Sure, I remember that.
0:40.0	A few weeks ago we were talking about that pill that kept proteins from binding
0:44.4	with Vitamin A and making sperm but that's not on the market yet right?
0:48.3	Right and while we wait for a solution like that there are really only two viable methods for male
0:54.0	contraception, condoms and vasectomies, but both have downsides.
0:58.0	Condoms can break and some men are allergic to latex,
1:00.5	and vasectomies are full-blown surgical procedures that can be painful and tricky to reverse.
1:05.6	So in the meantime are we just waiting for that Vitamin A pill?
1:09.1	Well, researchers are investigating another method called nanocontraception that relies on heat to
1:14.4	cause temporary sterility.
1:16.3	The good news is the early results from trials are promising.
1:19.7	Nano?
1:21.0	They might need to work on that branding a bit.
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