Keeping sperm from being ejaculated may provide the key to creating a birth control drug for men, according to a new mouse study.
The research is far from translating to a pill that human males could pop to keep from making babies; to reach that stage, any drug would have to undergo years of testing for safety and effectiveness. Nevertheless, the study offers hope for a new method of birth control for men, the researchers said.
“The search for a viable male contraceptive target has been a medical challenge for many years,” Sabatino Ventura of Monash University in Australia and colleagues wrote Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more…
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