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The discovery of RingoA-Cdk2 opens the door to the development of a male contraceptive

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The medical website farmacosalud.com devotes an article to a new research by Angel R. Nebreda, ICREA researcher and group leader of the Signalling and Cell Cycle Laboratory, on the RingoA protein and its role in meiosis—a study recently published in Nature Communications. The article explains that RingoA plays a key role in the production of sperm and eggs and that it could become a target for a male contraceptive.

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