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artifex@piefed.social to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago

Today's brand-new-sentence headline: Eye drops made from pig semen deliver cancer treatment to mice

www.nature.com

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Today's brand-new-sentence headline: Eye drops made from pig semen deliver cancer treatment to mice

www.nature.com

artifex@piefed.social to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago
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cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/213628

Eye drops made from pig semen deliver cancer treatment to mice

Nature, Published online: 27 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00982-2

Minuscule particles with the ability to cross hard-to-penetrate barriers can be loaded with drug treatments to target intractable diseases.


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    Seems like a lot of folks did not read the article but if you did you would realize any semen would work.

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    wait, I thought all sperm were sacred? This is a travesty. s/

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    The article quotes a statement from the pigs:

    Splooge!

    Yeah… right in the face! You like that mouse? Yeah, you like that? You’re a dirty little rodent… Are you ready, here comes round two.

    We reached out to the mice as well, but they declined to comment.

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    This is why the FDA is so important. So that:

    1. I don’t have to know what’s in my eye drops.
    2. I don’t put pig semen in my eye without evidence that it will help.
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      Jim Pillen, pig fucker and governor of Nebraska, has known for a long time that pig semen cures cancer. On account of how much pig semen he has had on and in his body, and on account of how little cancer he’s had.

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        That’s specious reasoning, Sippy. By that logic I could claim this rock cures cancer.

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          A pocket full of pitchblende might help. But also, might give you some new forms.

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    Honey, what’s wrong? You haven’t put on your cancer treatment boarkake eyedrops.

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      That is astoundingly good, well done

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      decided I prefer blindness than thinking about this

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    It was only a matter of time before someone tried this. I mean, I assume.

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      There’s a nootropic that’s made out of contents of horse stomachs, and the mechanism of its workings isn’t quite known. Likewise, I’m baffled as to the process of the discovery.

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      You can thank the male loneliness epidemic.

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        Yep, some people say MAGA doesnt advance science or medicine, but here is documented proof that it does. And its not only results from the barnyard-animal-fucking trials-- Wait till you see the results from the cousin-fucking, child-fucking, and couch-fucking studies going on. All kinds of stuff coming your way. You wont believe it.

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    I know we have to deliver it with something but did it have to be pig semen?

    Scientists: Well it probably doesn’t HAVE to be I guess…

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      Of course it doesn’t have to be pig semen. What other kind of semen did you have in mind?

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        People: “I was thinking no semen?” Scientists: “huh… Now that you mention it, I guess we could turn it into a virus and have it grow into pustules that will vaccinate others around you when they pop” People: “what semen options do I have again?”

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    That’s a hell of a title

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    That’s a double win. Cured of cancer and every time I cry I smell pork rinds.

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      What the fuck are you dipping your pork rinds in

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        pig cum. you don’t?

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    I think it’s important to know what the delivery method is. Are we talking a dropper, or you know, something else.

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      why complicate things, if the delivery method is already provided by nature?

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      Did they buy the pig dinner before obtaining the baby batter?

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        I mean they paid for its feed, yes. And its housing and everything else.

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          It’s not special if it’s done everyday. That pig needs to be wined and dined before intimacy.

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            It sounds more like a sugar-caretaker relationship.

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      I mean we could use an eye dropper… unless…

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        Sure, if you don’t mind sub-optimal freshness. Some people are more refined than that though.

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      Maybe they tie the pig down first and beat him if he doesnt submit?

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        An apple gag sounds appropriate.

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      It is still a “dropper” in both cases.

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    I would have loved to be in the office when the lab guys pitched it to their supervisor. “Hey, boss. You know what we’d like to try…”

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      “Jerking off a pig into a control group’s eyes to see what happens? I like the way you think, Stevens!”

      “Uhh … yeah, boss. That was it exactly. Good call”.

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      Maybe it was one of those accidental discoveries.

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