A new kind of male birth control that can be taken orally may be possible, according to a new study.
that their drug — currently called TDI-11861 — “temporarily stops sperm in their tracks and prevents pregnancies in preclinical models.”
“She showed the movie of these sperm not moving, just twitching,” Weill Cornell pharmacology Lonny Levinof the sAC inhibitor, as its called. “I said, ‘Oh my God. That’s a holy grail. That’s a male contraceptive.’ ” Their sperm had become immobile for up to two and a half hours — inside and out of the female reproductive tract — before starting to move normally at the three hour mark and are entirely “recovered” within 24 hours.
“Our inhibitor works within 30 minutes to an hour,” she said. “Every other experimental hormonal or nonhormonal male contraceptive takes weeks to bring sperm count down or render them unable to fertilize eggs.”
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