"Isobutynol"...there's a new word destined for fame. I really don't know how to spell it, just heard newscasters pronounce:

eye-so-BYOO-tin-all

with major stress on "byoo". Anywayz, there were the men (sorry, ladies, we're not there yet) in labcoats, sucking up in a syringe, injecting into a test tube, or dipping into it, like a mini-fish tank held in one's arms and filled with a pearly-transparent gel that looked like your average clear bowl of watery-white jelly, or--in other not-so-puritanical words:

A BUCKET OF SEMEN....

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's right folks: last night around 10:35pm Pacific Standard Time (8 March 2009), KTVU News Channel 2 newscasters showed a group of scientists standing around a bucket of semen (held in one of their arms, with another dipping a turkey baster into it and pulling out a long, gooey strand like crystal clear taffy, only a bit more runny, skinny and slippery), claiming that it showed an excellent ability to protect against the transmission of AIDS by applying it immediately prior to the conjugal act. They also claim that this miraculous man-goo showed very promising results in preventing female-type cancers.

Wikipedia doesn't have anything to say (yet) about isobutynol, but it does have a spot under "Isobutanol":

Isobutanol (IUPAC nomenclature: 2-methylpropan-1-ol; also known as 2-methylpropyl alcohol, among other names) is a colorless, flammable, organic compound with a characteristic smell. Its isomers are n-butanol, 2-butanol, and tert-butanol. It is classified as an alcohol, and, as such, it is widely used as a solvent in chemical reactions, as well as being a useful starting material for organic synthesis.

The only other site I found on a search for "isobutynal" was a page about beer fermentation, a.k.a. "home brewing".

I wonder: could this amazing gelatinous substance have anything to do with another finding some years back, that a small percentage of caucasian homosexuals have a genetic immunity to AIDS? (And if so: did the scientists in today's news, perhaps invite such lucky white boys to a jack-off party, cork-stoppered flasks provided "pro bono" so to speak?)

So don't forget that date, or the name of this magic elixer: