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And the sperm are attracted to it.

That is exactly right.

Dan, the in-house Wetherspoons ambassador, is looking absolutely furious at this.

I had no idea you were a Spoons fan.

He's not a fool.

he's a drug and a loser but he's no fool um yeah it's very cool yeah that's extraordinary it's a decoy it's a decoy item exactly and they use this agar jelly because basically it has the same consistency as an egg so it tricks them into it yeah i think they use this um kind of aragos jelly a lot in microbiology to kind of sift through substances and build structures because it's

It's basically like a nice squishy building block.

Exactly.

So this is a group of cellular biologists from Maryland in 2016.

I tried to find out whether it's actually in development because I think it's a fantastic non-hormonal contraceptive if it works.

Right.

But like any kind of medicine, these drugs take a long time to develop.

And I couldn't find out if they're actually in production, which I think means they're probably not.

Oh, yeah?

Headaches.

But what is really cool is it works both ways.

So not only would it create decoy eggs, because the strongest sperm stick to it the fastest, it can also be used to select really strong sperm for IVF.

So it's like a great way to prevent and a great way to encourage pregnancy when it's wanted.

So they're not like walking on the kelp.

They're not walking on the kelp.