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From: fbr@utastro.UUCP (Frank Ray)
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Subject: Re: NEW birth control pill on the way for men & women
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 15:17:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 22 15:17:01 1985
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> A potential birth control agent (Chemical Week/March 13, 1985)
> 
> ...  Biotechnology Australia (Melbourne) ... will spend
> $600,000 during the next three years to produce the hormone, using
> recombinant-DNA technology, and to bring the compound to clinical
> trials.
from: {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)

Now if they could just add a little something to prevent genital Herpes,
maybe this country could get back on the right track!  Better hold off on
buying stock in companies producing tasty topical contraceptives; this pill
might knock those out of the saddle (pardon the expression).

Don't pay any attention to me.  It's springtime, Friday, and Delbert
McClinton is in town.  Am I in heaven?      fbr@utastro