Use mobile phone accessories to detect if a male is infertile for 5 seconds.
Release date: 2017-03-27
On November 22, 2013, the staff of the Human Sperm Bank of Henan Province was preparing for sperm detection. (Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Bo)
Xinhuanet Beijing, March 23 (Reporter Lin Xiaochun) American researchers announced on the 22nd that they have developed a cheap and easy-to-operate smartphone accessory that can quickly and accurately measure the quality of sperm , thus helping men understand whether they are infertile. problem.
At present, 45 million couples worldwide suffer from infertility problems, and about 40% of them suffer from infertility due to poor sperm quality. Existing sperm quality testing methods require the operation of trained technicians and are costly and time consuming.
Researchers from the Brigham Gynecology Hospital in the United States reported in a new issue of the journal Science- Transformation Medicine that men who come to the hospital to provide sperm samples often feel "stress, embarrassment, pessimism and disappointment", so they hope Developed a program to detect male infertility "just as simple and cheap as measuring pregnancy at home."
To this end, Brigham Gynecology Hospital doctor Hardy Shafi and others developed an optical accessory that connects a smartphone and a disposable device that holds a sperm sample, which is evaluated by the data processing capabilities and cameras of the smartphone. Sperm concentration , vitality, and quantity can be achieved in just 5 seconds, while all materials cost less than $5.
The researchers analyzed 350 sperm samples and found that the device was 98% accurate in detecting semen abnormalities such as insufficient sperm concentration or low vitality according to WHO standards.
In addition, this accessory is simple and convenient to use. In this study, 10 untrained volunteers were able to correctly classify more than 100 semen samples.
Researchers believe that this fast, convenient and accurate measurement of sperm quality mobile phone accessories will be "game rules changers."
Source: Xinhua News Agency
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