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A Birth Control Pill For Men On The Horizon
For men who resent wearing condoms, a new non-intrusive solution is on the anvil – a birth control pill.
At least two projects are in the pipeline for choking male fertility.
One is H2-gamendazole that makes sperms go half-cooked. Normally, premature sperm cells grow a tail and head in the testis, but H2-gamendazole keeps them from reaching this stage of development.
“If there’s no sperm, the egg’s not going to get fertilised,” said Joseph Tash, a reproductive biologist at the University of Kansas’ Medical Centre in the US.
Tash has worked on the compound since 2001.
The other potential compound is JQ1 that can trick the body into forgetting how to make sperm!
JQ1 was found blocking bromodomain proteins in cancer cells by Jay Bradner and his team at Harvard’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The uncontrolled division of the abnormal cells ceased due to it.
JQ1 also obstructed a testicle-specific bromodomain called BRDT, making the sex cells that would otherwise produce sperms draw a blank about their own behaviour.
Mice treated with JQ1 can copulate with abandon yet produce zero offsprings.
But it will be several years before the drug is available.
Researchers would have to find a version of the molecule that works on the testicle protein without coming up with any side effects.
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Tooth ache
February 16, 2015 at 2:23 pm
Ilyashi lyakuangalila kuma sperm esu taifyaika.
Esther
February 16, 2015 at 2:26 pm
Thank God, women can’t be trusted to take the pill. These vultures can trap rich men.
Anderson Nkumbula
February 16, 2015 at 2:30 pm
I cant take it. Sperms are readily available unlike female ova whch is realesed mothly.
Kape
February 16, 2015 at 3:48 pm
ALA SEX TECHINTU CHAKWANGALILAKO PANTU SPERM EFINTU
poly
February 16, 2015 at 4:07 pm
Tash must be out of his mind to spend over 15 years playing with sperms which are not his. I can only suspect that Tash is undergoing his initial stages of lunacy. By this moment, he must be mad already. Bane, this money you waste can be put to good use pa Zed Rep.
New Educated Zambia
February 16, 2015 at 5:10 pm
Yes that feminine president by name of Lungu should start taking this pill on behalf of his macho wife. Please vote for real men and change in HH in 2016. very dull zambians!!!
tutu
February 16, 2015 at 6:12 pm
new educated pachainama hospital tapakosa umutengo,kabiye umune bakandapa mweo b4 tatulakulufya..w@ has politics gt 2 do with umupowe? am advising u bcoz f de luv I ave 4 u chikala waufwa
CD4
February 16, 2015 at 6:21 pm
I thot one of the reasons y a male anti baby pill cnt be formulated was bcoz the pill wud interfere with a hormone responsible for spermatogenesis called testosterone which will ultimately make men less musculine as it is also responsible for muscle buildup,,,either way ine teti mfinweko,,kuti wamena amabele..
Hollines
February 16, 2015 at 6:35 pm
Eko cabatwala uku. Tabaleumfwa sana
mm
February 16, 2015 at 7:39 pm
When are they coming to zed? The earlier the better.
lucas
February 16, 2015 at 8:30 pm
go and fill up the earth…. bena ati birth control nowonder you whites even killed jesus. us we have enough land yet to be filled up.
latiff
February 16, 2015 at 8:51 pm
insteady of promting the sondashi fomula, you are busy creating news from america zoona it africa bukala bwambwa ubwingila panono panono, besides understand what is behind the formulation and time will tell these pills or what will be tested in africa and would not be suprised if zambia shall test the drug first………..
Katowezhi
February 17, 2015 at 2:24 pm
The so called new educated to bring the name of the president into disrepute. The president has got nothing to do with the matter. More over the matter at hand is non political. Shame on you dirt minded chap
Sikiza
February 17, 2015 at 7:37 pm
@ new educated be careful you may thnk you are campagning for HH instead decampagning him we love hh so careful .
mk
February 17, 2015 at 10:24 pm
I am fearfully and wonderfully made in the eyes of God.