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A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming
Unless, that is, you embed them in a flexible silicon ninja star that folds up neatly into pill form.
That's the solution a team led by scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital and MIT came up with about five years ago. Back then they were building slow-release pills designed to deliver treatments for malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV. But in a scientific first, they've now demonstrated that the same invention can also deliver a steady drip of contraceptive hormones in the body of a pig for up to 29 days.
"From an engineering aspect, the key novelty is the ability to deliver a drug for a month after a single ingestion event," says Giovanni Traverso, a gastroenterologist and biomedical engineer at Brigham and Women's and MIT, who co-authored the new study, published today in Science Translational Medicine. The proof-of-concept experiments were conducted late last year. Since then, the long-lasting contraceptive has begun to be commercially developed by a Boston-area company called Lyndra Therapeutics, which Traverso cofounded with MIT bioengineer Robert Langer in 2015. In July, the startup received $13 million from the Gates Foundation to advance the monthly pill to human trials, with a focus on bringing it to low- and middle-income countries.
A once-a-month oral contraceptive, Science Translational Medicine (DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aay2602)
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @07:30PM
I agree with everything you've said, except for this ending well for globalists like Gates. Globalists benefit from open borders, but it's quite easy to see what happens if you import a bunch of culturally incompatible, low education individuals into first world nations. You basically create a surge in nationalism that's going to likely result in far stronger borders in the mid to long run. You don't get a Brexit without a Merkel. You damn sure don't get an AfD without a Merkel. And globalists also benefit from economic growth and development, yet once again the 'import Mid Eastfrica' strategy goes rather against this.
In my opinion Gates is just having his Carnegie moment - he lived a pretty scummy life, got old, realized he's going to die one day all those extra 0's on the end of his net worth are pretty much pointless in the end, and is trying to make up for it. Yet he does not know how to be 'good'. So he's trying to take his ques from others. His behavior feels a lot like what you would get if you had a robot, completely incapable of understanding 'goodness' (or long-term consequences), and told it to try to become 'good' as defined by some web searches.