Infertility is a growing global health issue with far-reaching socioeconomic implications. A
downward trend in male fertility highlights the acute need for affordable and accessible …

Infertility rates and the number of couples seeking fertility care have increased worldwide
over the past few decades. Over 2.5 million cycles of assisted reproductive technologies are …

A long-standing question in natural reproduction is how mammalian sperm navigate inside
female reproductive tract and finally reach the egg cell, or oocyte. Recently, fluid flow was …

The fallopian tube is lined with a highly complex folded epithelium surrounding a lumen that
progressively narrows. To study the influence of this labyrinthine complexity on sperm …

The separation of motile sperm from semen samples is sought after for medical infertility
treatments. In this work, we demonstrate a high-throughput microfluidic device that can …

Infertility affects one in six couples worldwide, and fertility continues to deteriorate globally,
partly owing to a decline in semen quality. Sperm analysis has a central role in diagnosing …

BACKGROUND Intensive research on sperm ion channels has identified members of
several ion channel families in both mouse and human sperm. Gene knock-out studies have …

Research question: Using a novel artificial vision-based software (SiD V1. 0; IVF 2.0, UK),
we aimed to explore a correlation between individual sperm kinematics evaluated in real …

Flagellar beating drives sperm through the female reproductive tract and is vital for
reproduction. Flagellar waves are generated by thousands of asymmetric molecular …

Selection of functional spermatozoa plays a crucial role in assisted reproduction. Passage of
spermatozoa through the female reproductive tract requires progressive motility to locate the …