New method of male birth control could stop sperm in its tracks

A team of British researchers has found a way to alter cow sperm and reduce male fertility by stopping the sperm from swimming.

The discovery, if replicated in human sperm, could be used to develop new forms of male contraception, the scientists announced last week. The same method could also be used to boost sperm flow for enhanced fertility treatments.

"We hope to develop something that will be clinically useful and can be taken forward in the future," Sarah Jones, a pharmacology lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton in England, said in a press release.

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