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High-tech 'fertility chip' measures sperm count, mobility | Health Tech - CNET News
Might need to grab 'something' else as well...If you'd like a better understanding of what it takes for sperm to be considered fertile, go grab your measuring spoons and look at the quarter teaspoon. Roughly that amount of ejaculate should boast anywhere between 20 million and 150 million sperm. Anything less than 20 million and fertility just might be an issue.
Would be more fun if the collection is performed by someone else who has an equal interest in your 'manliness', no?So Loes Segerink, a researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, has developed a "fertility chip" that can accurately count one's sperm concentration as well as measure its mobility (when discussing sperm the synonym "motility" is often used). What's more, the test can be taken at home, with the ejaculate being, ahem, collected in a more private environment.
Would there be an 'Intel Inside' label with this contraption? Would the 'manly' man be alerted to the count completion by that little Intel tune?...the sperm flows past a liquid-filled channel on the chip beneath electrode "bridges." When cells pass beneath these bridges, a brief fluctuation in electrical resistance occurs. By counting these events, the chip is counting sperm.
Live tadpoles from the dead ones...The chip not only counts sperm, but sorts motile sperm from its dormant brethren, and then tallies up the groups.