Science never fails to impress us. Because sex is more exciting, it impresses the most. In science’s endeavor to cleanse sex – impressive bonanza in disguise, scientists from the University of Utah have devised a new kind of vaginal gel for females, which turns semisolid in the presence of semen and traps the AIDS virus, preventing it from infecting the vaginal cells.

Designed with polymers for the developing countries where the women find it difficult to negotiate the use of protection with their partners, the gel (molecular condom) is a great beginning to curb the HIV infection from spreading via semen to vaginal tissue. The gel is inserted a few hours before an intercourse, in course these polymers in the gel form a kind of microscopic mesh, that has been lab tested to trap the AIDS virus guarding the vaginal cells well.

The study testing the behavior of the new gel will be published online later this week in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. If Utah’s bioengineer Patrick Kiser is believed, “human tests of the gel would start in three to five years, and the gel would reach the market in several more years.”473922