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Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have found a birth control that is hormone free, fully natural, resulted in no known side effects so far, is harmless to eggs and sperm, could be used both in the long- and short-term, and it can be used either before or after conception, from ancient Chinese folk medicine. "Because these two plant compounds block fertilization at very, very low concentrations -- about 10 times lower than levels of levonorgestrel in Plan B -- they could be a new generation of emergency contraceptive we nicknamed 'molecular condoms,'" team leader Polina Lishko, an assistant professor of molecular and cell biology, said in a press release.
The active compounds are pregnenolone sulfate — and the two plant-derived inhibitors pristimerin and lupeol. According to the publication.
And they work by blocking ABHD2 that signals to sperms to move faster. However these compounds hit a target that is important for many cell types in the body. So these compounds are no "magic bullet" and a better comparison is that of carpet bombing.
The chemicals they studied are supposedly extracted from mangoes and dandelion roots.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1700367114 — a full pre-print is available.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday May 29 2017, @09:58PM (2 children)
Still a murderer, now there are just no survivors :)
I find it odd to term it waste, when the same God designed procreation to literally waste 99.999% of the "bullets". You have sex, with a woman, deposit a load, and if you are lucky, 2 or 3 of them might survive to become zygotes. Most of the time if there is a survivor, it's the fittest one and just that one. Even under the best of circumstances, we are all murderers millions of times over. The logic is truly amusing and twisted. Is it just manslaughter if I prematurely ejaculate and didn't make it to the pussy? Am I cleared of the charges because of proximity, intentions, or what? If God did care at all, then wouldn't he have more intelligently designed us?
By that same logic, all women are murderers with blood on their hands every 28 days because they didn't get pregnant. It's not headaches, but homicide.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @09:19AM (1 child)
You have sex, with a woman, deposit a load, and if you are lucky
At that point, I would already consider myself lucky.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @05:06PM
At which point exactly?
SCNR :-)