yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Artificial Female Reproductive Tract Opens New Health Frontiers | National Geographic


2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

[Music] Avatar being a virtual representation of a human being, and in this case, it's a biological representation of the female reproductive tract. So, we call it Eva Tarr.

The system that we've invented together with Draper laboratories is a series of interconnecting cubes that have individual tubes that now connect each of the organs. So, we would have actual samples from enough, so we would have like a mouse ovary cultured on one of these strands. Well, the fluid can dynamically flow between all of these individual different compartments, just like each of our organs do, as if blood was carrying factors between different organs.

So, this would be the ovary. So, it's coming from here, going into here, and then flowing; it's a little miniature ovary. So, we actually have either the individual follicles from the ovary, and a follicle in the ovary are the cells that make the hormones like estrogen and progesterone, together with the O site, or we can actually have the entire ovary there.

That allows us to control the hormones over a 28-day menstrual cycle in a box. So, understanding how the uterus responds to hormones is really important. There is no animal model for a lot of the stuff that we study, and so the human is really the perfect model to study the end, the human endometrium, the uterus, and the diseases that are associated with it.

We were able to actually acquire primary human tissue from women who were having surgeries for different menstrual or reproductive related problems. This is the first time we've been able to model the entire reproductive hormone profile, and that profile of menstrual cycle hormones now allows us to connect those dynamic hormones to downstream tissues like the fallopian tube, uterus, cervix, together with a liver.

That integration now will allow us to understand better about the reproductive tract itself, which we don't have good models for, as well as reproductive diseases. So, now this is going to allow us to test drugs for individuals. So, we'll be able to eventually make individual organs from each person.

So, we'll be able to do personalized medicine. It's really going to open a whole new world of reproductive health testing. [Music]

More Articles

View All
MOLTEN GLASS VS Prince Rupert's Drop - Smarter Every Day 285
Do you know what this is? If you do, you’re going to be, like, super excited about this video. If you don’t know what this is, let me bring you up to speed. This is called a Prince Rupert’s Drop, and it’s created by dripping molten glass down into water. …
15 Money Mindsets That Speed Up Your Growth
Do you know what your money mindset is? You know research shows that most people have four core money beliefs: money avoidance, money worship, money status, and money vigilance. Those beliefs often, especially when you don’t understand where they come fro…
Quadratic approximation formula, part 2
Line things up a little bit right here. All right, so in the last video, I set up the scaffolding for the quadratic approximation, which I’m calling q of a function, an arbitrary two-variable function which I’m calling f. The uh, the form that we have rig…
Pattern when dividing by tenths and hundredths
Let’s see if we can figure out what 2 divided by 0.1 or 1⁄10 is. Pause this video and see if you can figure that out. All right, now let’s work through it together. There are a couple of ways that we can approach it. One way is to think about everything …
Nature's 3D Printer: MIND BLOWING Cocoon in Rainforest - Smarter Every Day 94
Hey, it’s me, Destin. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day! So, we just got off this boat, and we’re gonna walk for about an hour in the jungle to find a moth pupa. Okay, Phil just found it. So, what are we looking at here? This here is the pupa of a moth c…
The Real Moral Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars
Push this button. It’s driving itself. It feels good. So, BMW brought me to the Consumer Electronics Show here in Las Vegas. I’m going to check out the future of driving. Did I get it? Am I near? [unintelligible] Oh! I felt it! That really felt like pushi…