A birth control pill for human trial coudl soon be launched.
This folows research findins that suggest the male contraceptive pill was 99% effective at preventing pregnancy in mice.
The team say they managed to keep mice sterile for up to four to six weeks.
According to Sky news, the proposed contraceptive is the product of researchers at the University of Minnesota, who say it works by targeting how our bodies interact with vitamin A, known to be essential to fertility in mammals. Diets deficient in vitamin A have been linked to sterility, for instance. After a lengthy search, they found an experimental compound that blocks a protein responsible for binding to a form of vitamin A (retinoic acid) in our cells, known as retinoic acid receptor alpha (RAR-α). RAR-α is one of three proteins with a similar function, and the hope is that its selective blocking is enough to induce long-lasting but reversible sterility while causing little to no off-target effects elsewhere.
Early human trials of the pill are expected to begin by the end of the year.
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