Hormones play a vital part in keeping our bodies working properly. But they can also have a powerful – and sometimes negative ...

The discovery of a gut-to-brain regulation pathway in flies calls for additional consideration on how certain medications, especially GLP-1 agonists, can be used to treat obesity and diabetes in ...

An uncovered mechanism that helps sperm reach and fertilize an egg could inspire non-hormonal contraception for men and women ...

Hormonal birth control is a fact of life for millions of women. In the U.S. alone, more than 60 million women of reproductive age have used contraceptives according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Brain organoids have come a long way. These mini-brains, at most the size of a pea, are made from stem cells or reprogrammed skin cells and churned inside a bioreactor full of nutrients. With ...

A drug candidate called YCT-529, which creator YourChoice Therapeutics is angling to make the first non-hormonal contraceptive pill for men, entered its Phase 1 clinical trial on December 13 in the ...

Hormones are vital for maintaining normal body functions, but scientists are finding they can also powerfully - and sometimes negatively - affect our mood and mental health.

A non-hormonal, reversible male contraceptive pill with very few side effects might not be as far off as previously thought, early human trial results suggest. In a first-in-human study, a drug called ...

Six decades after the first oral contraceptive for women was approved in the United States, University of Minnesota researchers are one step closer to developing a non-hormonal birth control pill for ...