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A shot at contraception: In India, a nonagenarian renews testing of a birth control vaccine

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Jayaraman, K. A shot at contraception: In India, a nonagenarian renews testing of a birth control vaccine. Nat Med 24, 118–120 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0218-118

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