Inverse - 🐖 The 6 million dollar pig

Jan. 5, 2023

The human penis does not have a bone. But it does have three spongy cylinders, encased in a thick sheath called the tunica albuginea. This sheath functions essentially like a tourniquet — it keeps the blood that floods into the cylinders during arousal from escaping back into circulation. The tunica albuginea has incredible tensile strenght — at a maximum of 1500 millimeters mercury or 29 pounds per square inch (PSI), just at the lower end of the ballpark recommended for a car tire. It's a neat trick of biology, but unfortunately the male organ is not invincible to wear and tear, whether through trauma, age, or inflammation, erectile function can stop, well, functioning.

That's where a new study comes in. Researchers have created an artifical tunica albuginea that can restore typical function in an animal model — in this case, a pocket pig. The innovation has implications for people who experience erectile dysfunction, but more broadly, it could one day help repair other tissues similar to the penis' hardy sheath, like the heart. Read on, and keep scrolling for more exciting stories from Inverse.

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CES 2023
This transforming moped is CES vaporware at its best

Sometimes vaporware just hits home. Take, for example, the Tatamel Bike from Japanese startup, Icoma.

This everything-moped, which we ogled for ourselves at CES 2023, is a lot of things. It’s customizable; it’s vaguely cyberpunk; it’s transformable; it’s a boatload of ideas that will probably never fully come to fruition. And you know what? that’s perfectly okay.

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THE 6 MILLION DOLLAR PIG
Bionic pig penises offer a "promising" new erectile dysfunction treatment

We can rebuild the human penis. We have the technology.

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Matter, researchers in China developed an artificial material that mimics a connective tissue, the tunica albuginea, responsible for keeping the penis erect during sexual arousal.

When placed into pig penises with tunica albuginea injuries, the innovative material was able to restore erectile function. It could eventually do the same in humans with an injured or impaired tunica albuginea due to conditions like Peyronie’s disease.

It could also one day help repair other organs, like the heart and bladder.

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Their follow-up was 1899, a multi-language maritime thriller and one of Netflix’s most anticipated shows. Like Dark, it was a slow-burn “mystery box” show, ending with a shocking reveal that was practically begging for a Season 2 renewal.

But now the series has been unceremoniously canceled. What happened to prompt a flop from such proven talent? The issue isn’t the show itself, but the environment it was released into.

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SWOT launched on December 16, and has been in orbit ever since. Cameras on board the satellite watched as SWOT unwrapped itself like a golden present — stretching its wings, so to speak, in preparation for the tasks ahead.

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