This week on the channel +17M views this week

Dr Ben Miles follows a gut bacterium's route to the heart

His most-watched upload of the week explains a cholesterol-lowering mechanism tested in mice, alongside two reports on fusion engineering.

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Scientists Discover Gut Bacteria Stops Heart Disease

A gut bacterium feeds on fibre, produces a fatty acid and sets off a chain of events in the liver. Dr Ben Miles turns that microscopic journey into the week's most-watched upload, with roughly 1.6 million views for "Scientists Discover Gut Bacteria Stops Heart Disease".

The mechanism is the interesting part. Researchers at Sun Yat-sen University investigated Bacteroides uniformis, which produces a fatty acid that blocks the same cholesterol-making enzyme targeted by statins. Miles explains how reducing the liver's own cholesterol production prompts it to pull more LDL from the bloodstream. The treatment results he describes, including reduced plaque accumulation, came from mice; whether they hold up in humans remains the question. Viewers are asking how long discoveries like this take to become available to ordinary patients.

Fusion supplied the other two uploads. In "This Fusion Startup Is Building an "Impossible" Reactor", Miles recounts travelling to Munich to meet Proxima Fusion's co-founder and chief executive, Francesco, about its stellarator design. His other report follows Commonwealth Fusion Systems' enormous order for superconducting tape for its planned ARC power plant. That tape story is currently gathering views faster than either of the week's other releases.

The audience grew by about 20,000 subscribers across the week, and daily viewing is modestly above its usual pace. Among nearby science channels, Miles had the largest weekly view gain, while Astrum and Branch Education are having quieter days than usual.

Yet the busiest video in Miles' catalogue right now concerns a rather more everyday engineering problem: "Scientists Create Perfect Urinal, Win Ig Nobel Prize", his report on research designed to prevent splashes.

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We make so much progress in medicine, but when it will be available for average human?
@GreatWizardSigylSee it on YouTube
I wonder how people discover this kind of stuff daily
@VeryevilcheeseSee it on YouTube
Did I see a pokeball in that bloodstream?
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The dark souls 2 reference oml
@guardian1653See it on YouTube
That's so cool it would save so many lives i hope it becomes mainstream soon
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