Crews will install bait boxes with rat birth control in alleys behind several major stretches of Wicker Park and Bucktown.

New York City is preparing to roll out an unconventional strategy for tackling its rodent problem: rat birth control.

Rat populations can grow extremely quickly – the rodents become sexually mature at two months old and give birth every three weeks to between six and 12 babies. Due to the amount of rubbish plaguing ...

Chicago was dubbed the "rattiest" city in America for the tenth consecutive year, according to Orkin. Now, there is a new approach: rat birth control.

YCT-529, a hormone-free male birth control pill, has shown high effectiveness in animals and is now in human trials, marking ...

Chicago is testing a new rat control method using birth control instead of poison. Bait boxes with rat birth control will be ...

Arizona-based company SenesTech is deploying rat ‘birth control’ in bait boxes across Wicker Park and Bucktown as part of a ...

“A safe and effective male pill will provide more options to couples for birth control,” said Gunda Georg, the corresponding author of the study and a professor in the College of Pharmacy where the ...

Chicago has earned the title of "rattiest" city. But a new pilot program in a popular neighborhoods could help to break the ...

Shamus Toomey, Editor in Chief and co-founder of Block Club Chicago, joins Bob Sirott to share the latest Chicago ...