Bird Pinkerton
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1,078 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Bird Pinkerton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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To test this basic hypothesis, Gemma had to find some menstrual fluid.
And because it's understudied, there wasn't like an established protocol for collecting it as a fluid.
But she found some volunteers who were willing to use menstrual cups and give her the contents.
Gemma and her colleagues, they couldn't just go around putting menstrual fluid on people's wounds.
So instead, they made a simplified version of a wound in the lab.
They took cells from the top layer of human skin and then grew them in trees.
And then they made a little hole in that quote-unquote skin to simulate a wound and finally put menstrual blood on the holes.
Gemma says they came back the next day and the holes were gone.
They hadn't made a mistake here.
They really had made the holes.
They wound up trying again.
And this time, it really was clear that something in the menstrual fluid was healing skin cells in less than 24 hours.
Their control groups were healing more slowly.
Like it really was the menstrual fluid making the difference.
Science can be kind of a frustrating process with a lot of dead ends and unclear results.
But this experiment was a pretty strong signal that like, yes, this hypothesis was right on.
But they still tried more experiments.
Like they got real skin from plastic surgery patients to see how that healed.
And they ran tests on living pigs as well.
Researchers made one millimeter wounds on pig skin and then put menstrual fluid on those wounds.
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