Ultra Sounds Aren't Just for Pregnancy

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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