A biochemist by training, Bakshi could become the first biotech company chief executive officer to bring a hormone-free male birth control pill to market. The pill his team developed, YCT-529, works ...

BERKELEY, Calif. -- A Berkeley startup says it's developing the first hormone-free birth control for both men and women. Researchers from UC Berkeley founded YourChoice Therapeutics. They say they ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--YourChoice Therapeutics, Inc., pioneering hormone-free family planning products, today announced that Communications Medicine, a Nature Portfolio Journal, published the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy released research Wednesday that lays the groundwork for the first hormone-free male birth control pill to enter clinical trials.

SAN DIEGO, March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Use of GLP-1 receptor agonists, or GLP-1s, is skyrocketing in the United States, with more than nine million prescriptions for Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and ...

DURHAM, NC / ACCESSWIRE / March 27, 2024 / Male Contraceptive Initiative has invested $500,000 in YourChoice Therapeutics, a San Francisco biotech startup, developing the first hormone-free male birth ...

For decades, contraceptive responsibility has largely rested with women, with men having only two reliable options-condoms or vasectomy. That imbalance may now be on the verge of change. A ...

The future of male contraception just got real. In a historic first, YCT-529, a hormone-free male birth control pill, has successfully passed its first human safety trial. Unlike traditional ...

FemCap is a physician-invented, FDA-approved, non-hormonal contraceptive designed to offer safe, comfortable, and effective birth control without side effects. Developed by Dr. Alfred Shihata, FemCap ...

A new male birth control method to reduce semen output offers results comparable to a vasectomy and may dispel the belief that contraception is a woman’s responsibility, researchers and experts ...