Soap Leads to Understandings in the Body

 


A peculiar discovery has been made about the human body. A team of scientists from around the world are researching how soap can be important in our understanding of the body. The team examined complex systems like lungs and attempted improvement to respiratory distress syndrome using surfactants. 

Surfactants are the molecules found in soap. Scientists discovered that surfactants can naturally find their way through a maze using the shortest path. The path of soap in a maze has little penetration or finds few dead ends. 

Researchers compared the action of soap in a maze to the transport process in branching networks in the human lungs. They claim it reveals understanding how liquids (and drugs) travel through these networks. They also claimed that it could lead medical scientists to discover more effective and novel therapies.

Scientists at the university of Manchester worked with universities from France and the US. The work was published in physical review letters. 

Dr Richard McNair is a research assistant in the department of mathematics at the university of Manchester. He reports, “when we put soap into a liquid filled maze, the natural surfactants already present in the liquid interact, creating an omniscient view of the maze, so the soap can intuitively find the correct path, ignoring all the other revel paths. This behavior occurs due to the very subtle, but powerful physics where the two types of surfactants Generate tension forces that guide the soap to the exit.” 

The team used the simulations and models to duplicate exactly how these forces adapt to the maze of structure and shape. This leads to understanding how materials move and confined spaces within a branching complex environment.

Professor Oliver Jensen reports, “ We’ve uncovered a key mechanism that helps us understand how liquid moves through complex materials. Although this experiment used milk and soap, the principles that play extend to other systems, including lungs, airways, and micro fluid devices. Our findings could have implications for improving medical treatments.”

Surfactant help fluids spread and naturally exist in human lungs. When doctors treat lung disease diseases, they use “exogenous surfactants.” These are derived from external sources and are used to help the lungs function better. Although, surfactants already in the lungs can impede these treatments. It makes it harder for additional surfactants to travel.

The research furthers the understanding of surfactants in the body. Dr. McNair reports, “. . . The applications of this research doesn’t stop there. Many other systems such as micro fluid Devices that transport chemicals and other substances through intricate networks could benefit from this insight for informing better designs for the systems, inevitably improving efficiency, and reducing costs.” 

The clinical research continues! 

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