Nano Cancer Fight, Memory Structure, Coffee Buzz Days

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Warner Bros. Discovery

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4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

You’re going to learn about how our body’s pH is helping us fight cancer, how memories aren’t stored where we thought they were, and how drinking coffee could have you spending a lot more at the store.

Ph power.

“pH-Responsive Nanoparticles for Cancer Immunotherapy: A Brief Review” by Yunfeng Yan and Hangwei Ding
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7466692/
Polycarbonate-based ultra-pH sensitive nanoparticles improve therapeutic window by Xu Wang, et al.
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19651-7
Lighting up cancer cells with pH-activated nanoparticles by Angus Chen
- https://www.statnews.com/2022/04/10/lighting-up-cancer-cells-with-ph-activated-nanoparticles/
Cancer Statistics by National Cancer Institute
- https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics

Memory box.

“A Single Memory is Stored Across Many Connected Brain Regions” by The Picower Institute
- https://picower.mit.edu/news/single-memory-stored-across-many-connected-brain-regions
“Innovations and Inventions: SHIELD” by The Picower Institute
- https://picower.mit.edu/innovations-inventions/shield
“Protection Of Tissue Physicochemical Properties Using Polyfunctional Crosslinkers” by Young-Gyun Park, et al.
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4281?WT.feed_name=subjects_microscopy
“Memory” by Queensland Brain Institute
- https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain-basics/memory

Don’t drink before you shop.

“Caffeine Consumption Leads to Impulsivity during Shopping, New Study Shows” by Natali Anderson
- http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/psychology/caffeine-shopping-impulsivity-10913.html
“EXPRESS: Caffeine's Effects on Consumer Spending” by Dipayan Biswas, Patrick Hartmann, Martin Eisend, Courtney Szocs, Bruna Jochims, Vanessa Apaolaza, Erik Hermann, Cristina M. López, and Adilson Borges.
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00222429221109247

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:09.0	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff.
0:11.0	I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Kali. If you're dropping in for the first time welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind if you're a loyal listener welcome back
0:20.0	today you'll learn about how our body's pH is helping us fight cancer, how memories aren't
0:25.0	stored where we thought they were, and how drinking coffee could have you spending a lot more
0:29.9	at the store.
0:30.9	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. Do you know what
0:34.9	disease will affect roughly 40% of men and women at some point in their lifetime?
0:38.8	That's a high percentage of people. Arthritis? That's a good guess.
0:43.0	One in four adults has arthritis, but I'm talking about cancer.
0:47.0	Oh, wow, that's way higher than I thought.
0:49.0	Agreed.
0:50.0	I'm only bringing it up because I actually have good news.
0:53.0	Researchers have found a new treatment for cancer that uses the difference between the pH of our body
0:57.8	and that of tumor cells to strengthen the effects of immunotherapy.
1:01.0	The pH scale, you're talking about acids and bases? Exactly. As you might
1:05.9	know the pH scale runs from 0 to 14. Things below a 7 are acids and things above
1:11.5	7 are bases. In the simplest terms,
1:14.0	acidic molecules will give away protons from their hydrogen atoms and basic
1:18.4	molecules will steal protons from other molecules hydrogen atoms. The better something is at giving away protons, the more
1:24.9	acidic it is, and the lower its number on the pH scale. The better something is at stealing
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