Authors from the research teams of Richard Stouffer, Ph.D. and Robert Brenner, Ph.D., published two papers in the February issue of the journal detailing the effects of treating female monkeys with antiprogestins. If the trials go as the scientists anticipate, women could have a novel, simple and effective method of birth control. Monkeys, whose menstrual cycle closely resembles that of humans, make an excellent model for this basic and contraceptive research.
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