There is some work being done by Dr. Chen's lab at Stanford to develop a small molecule HIPK4 inhibitor, which has been demonstrated to be nessecary for later stages of spermatogenesis, and has expression primarily in testes and the brain (mouse and rat models). Bayer has a patent on nucleotide/biological inhibitors for the same function. Do you see this method of birth control being successfully developed, and do you think the presence of expression in the brain will be an issue?
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There is some work being done by Dr. Chen's lab at Stanford to develop a small molecule HIPK4 inhibitor, which has been demonstrated to be nessecary for later stages of spermatogenesis, and has expression primarily in testes and the brain (mouse and rat models). Bayer has a patent on nucleotide/biological inhibitors for the same function. Do you see this method of birth control being successfully developed, and do you think the presence of expression in the brain will be an issue?
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