Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Father of the Abortion Pill, Is Dead at 98
Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the French biochemist and physician who was often called the father of the abortion pill — and who was also known for his pioneering studies on the role of steroid hormones in human reproduction and aging - умря в петък в дома си в Париж. Той беше 98.
брачната половинка му Симоне Харари Баулие удостовери гибелта в обществените медии.
dr. Ранните проучвания на Baulieu се концентрират върху хормоните, по -специално DHEA, един от основните хормони в надбъбречната жлеза, както и новаторска работа по естроген и прогестерон. But it was his development in the early 1980s of the synthetic steroid RU-486, or mifepristone, that thrust him onto the public stage.
Unlike the morning-after pill, which is used after sex to delay ovulation, RU-486 works as a kind of “anti-hormone, ” in Dr. Baulieu’s words, by blocking the uterus from receiving progeste...
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