Survival of the Fittest Sperm: How New FAU Technology Might Help Infertile Couples (IMAGE)

Florida Atlantic University

Survival of the Fittest Sperm: How New FAU Technology Might Help Infertile Couples

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The device developed at FAU consists of one inlet for the injection of a raw unprocessed semen sample and two plastic chambers separated by porous membrane. The most healthy and motile sperm swim through the porous membrane leaving behind less functional and dead sperm in the bottom chamber. Using this sorting technology, a technician just has to inject the semen sample into the device and can then collect healthy sperm from the top chamber in about 30 minutes, making it very easy to use.

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