2012-08-17 17:44
Research on mice boosts hopes for 'male pill'
A compound initially sketched as a candidate for blocking cancer has been found to stop sperm generation in mice, they said. Once the drug was halted, the rodents recovered fertility and were able to sire perfectly healthy offspring. "If you stop the drug, there's complete reversibility," said Martin Matzuk, director of the Center for Drug Discovery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. The drug is known by its lab name JQ1, after a chemist, Jun Qi, who devised it, initially with the idea of disrupting a cancer-causing gene called BRD4. The study appears in the U.S. journal Cell. (AFP) |
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