When birth control advocate Margaret Sanger asked Gregory Pincus to come up with a birth control pill, he knew one of the hardest parts of the process would be the large-scale human trials ...

After the success of the preliminary Boston trials for the Pill in 1954 and 1955, John Rock and Gregory Pincus were confident they had honed in on an oral contraceptive. But without large-scale ...

The union of the mammalian sperm and egg is a delicate process, yet it can be manipulated by experimental techniques. In some animals the egg alone can be artificially stimulated to grow into an ...

But then-CEO Jack Searle, Daniel Searle’s father, saw an opportunity, and the company quietly partnered with a group of ...

Dr. Plank's remarks followed a presentation by Dr. Gregory Pincus, who is known as the "father" of the pill, on the advantages of physiological control of conception. Dr. Plank, however ...

Since Carl Djerassi and Gregory Pincus brought the proof of concept of OCs in the early 1960s, with a pill containing norethidronel as a progestin and mestranol as an estrogen, many different ...

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In the 1950s, Sanger and heiress Katharine McCormick provided financial backing for a research team led by endocrinologist Gregory Pincus – one of the handful of doctors willing to stray into ...

Video game billionaire and “lifelong” Democrat Mark Pincus declared on Sunday he’s pulling the lever for Donald Trump after seeing “too much” over the past year. Pincus, who founded ...

The Pill was developed by a team of scientists led by Gregory Pincus. The team needed to carry out large scale trials on humans. In the summer of 1955, Pincus visited the island of Puerto Rico.

Sean Gregory is a senior sports correspondent at TIME. His work has been cited in the annual Best American Sports Writing anthology nine times. His stories have won awards from the U.S. Basketball ...