HIV Vaccine, CO2 New Uses, No Noise Fabric

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today, you’ll learn about a breakthrough in the effort to create a vaccine for HIV, how engineers are turning carbon dioxide into useful products, and the silk fabric that could one day make your clothes noise-canceling.

HIV Vaccine

“A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans.” Duke Health. 2024.
“The impact of antiretroviral treatment on mortality trends of HIV-positive adults in rural Uganda: a longitudinal population-based study, 1999-2009.” by Ivan Kasamba, et al. 2012.

CO2 New Uses

“Engineers find a new way to convert carbon dioxide into useful products.” by Anne Trafton. 2024.
“Highly Efficient Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction via DNA-Directed Catalyst Immobilization.” by Gang Fan, et al. 2024.

No Noise Fabric

“Single Layer Silk and Cotton Woven Fabrics for Acoustic Emission and Active Sound Suppression.” by Grace H. Yang, et al. 2024.
“How Piezoelectricity Works to Make Crystals Conduct Electric Current.” by Edwin Robledo. 2023.
https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/piezoelectricity/

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0:00.0	If you're looking for a way to get smarter in just a few minutes, good news, this is Curiosity Daily from Discovery, and we're going to do just that. I'm Nate.
0:11.5	And I'm Kelly. We are so excited to have you here with us today
0:14.0	at Curiosity and if you are one of our loyal listeners welcome back. Today you learn
0:18.2	about a breakthrough in the effort to create a vaccine for HIV, how engineers
0:22.2	are turning carbon dioxide into useful products, and the silk
0:25.6	fabric that could one day make your clothes noise cancelling.
0:29.1	Okay, I'm curious about these ones.
0:30.5	Let's find out.
0:31.5	Just about everyone has gotten a crash course on epidemics, viruses, and vaccines over the past few
0:36.3	years.
0:37.3	The COVID-19 vaccines represented breakthroughs in science and medicine the likes of which the world
0:41.4	had almost never seen.
0:43.0	That's almost. In the 1980s and 1990s, a virus rampaged through entire communities with 100%
0:49.4	lethality. Of course I'm talking about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
0:54.0	Ah, that was a devastating time for so many people and as I understood it, some of the science that
0:59.7	went into developing treatments for HIV actually helped researchers develop the COVID vaccines, right?
1:05.2	Science has a way of building on its own progress. You're absolutely right. So current treatments
1:09.7	consist of anti-retroviral therapies that suppress the virus and allowed the immune system to recover.
1:15.0	And HIV affects the immune system, right?
1:18.0	Exactly. Like I said, HIV causes AIDS, which stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
1:24.0	It basically destroys the body's ability to fight off normal everyday infections.
1:28.0	Many HIV patients died from opportunistic infections like pneumonia
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