{"id":57434,"date":"2017-05-17T20:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T03:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/this-plant-based-molecular-condom-is-our-latest-shot-at-a-male-contraceptive"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:01:13","slug":"this-plant-based-molecular-condom-is-our-latest-shot-at-a-male-contraceptive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/this-plant-based-molecular-condom-is-our-latest-shot-at-a-male-contraceptive","title":{"rendered":"This Plant-Based \u2018Molecular Condom\u2019 Is Our Latest Shot at a Male Contraceptive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-plant-based-molecular-condom-is-our-latest-shot-at-a-male-contraceptive.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have come up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-type-of-male-contraceptive-not-only-prevents-babies-it-s-completely-reversible\">yet another candidate<\/a> for a male contraceptive \u2014 this time in the form of a chemical found in certain traditional arthritis remedies.<\/p>\n<p>The team identified molecules that stop sperm from reaching the necessary speed to charge into the egg cell, opening the way for both a new kind of emergency contraceptive and prophylactic that anybody could use.<\/p>\n<p>The target of these molecules is a small gate found throughout the sperm\u2019s tail called Catsper (a combination of cation channel and sperm), which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11595941?dopt=Abstract\">identified in 2001<\/a> by researchers studying male infertility.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/researchers-discover-new-male-contraceptives-that-take-the-spring-out-of-their-sperm\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/researchers-discover-new-male-co...heir-sperm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have come up with yet another candidate for a male contraceptive \u2014 this time in the form of a chemical found in certain traditional arthritis remedies. The team identified molecules that stop sperm from reaching the necessary speed to charge into the egg cell, opening the way for both a new kind of emergency [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57503,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57434\/revisions\/57503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}