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DNA Vaccine Sterilizes Mice, Could Lead To One-Shot Birth Control For Cats, Dogs

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: October 5th, 2015, 8:00pm UTC

sciencehabit writes: Animal birth control could soon be just a shot away. A new injection makes male and female mice infertile by tricking their muscles into producing hormone-blocking antibodies. If the approach works in dogs and cats, researchers say, it could be used to neuter and spay pets and to control reproduction in feral animal populations. A similar approach could one day spur the development of long-term birth control options for humans.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=DNA+Vaccine+Sterilizes+Mice%2C+Could+Lead+To+One-Shot+Birth+Control++For+Cats%2C+Dogs%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1L2WVEj"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F10%2F05%2F1941234%2Fdna-vaccine-sterilizes-mice-could-lead-to-one-shot-birth-control-for-cats-dogs%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/10/05/1941234/dna-vaccine-sterilizes-mice-could-lead-to-one-shot-birth-control-for-cats-dogs?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/10/05/1941234/dna-vaccine-sterilizes-mice-could-lead-to-one-shot-birth-control-for-cats-dogs?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/bUDXE5K0aos" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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