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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @11:14PM
You tell 'em! You are so right! These librul scum are trying to destroy freedom and capitalism, to make way for the new global caliphate!
Despite what good and decent folk think, our fearless leader has *not* (for fear of assassination by the deep state) dismantled the FEMA concentration camps. Unless dear leader gets another four years, good, right-thinking Americans will begin to be herded into those stinking holes on 21 January, 2021 to make way for the hordes of filthy muzzies* waiting at the Mexican border!
Stock up on ammunition, friends. We're gonna need it!
Jade Helm! Jade Helm!
*And they will violate your sweet, innocent daughters with their dirty sand nigger sperm!