Advances in medical robots promise to improve modern medicine and the quality of life.
Miniaturization of these robotic platforms has led to numerous applications that leverages …

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 …

STUDY QUESTION Does microfluidic sorting improve the selection of sperm with lower DNA
fragmentation over standard density-gradient centrifugation? SUMMARY ANSWER …

Sperm motion near surfaces plays a crucial role in fertilization, but the nature of this motion
has not been resolved. Using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, we …

Sperm selection in the female reproductive tract (FRT) is sophisticated. Only about 1,000
sperm out of millions in an ejaculate reach the fallopian tube and thus have a chance of …

With the advent of small-scale robotics, several exciting new applications like Targeted Drug
Delivery, single cell manipulation and so forth, are being discussed. However, some …

The advancement of precision medicine in modern biomedicine has been significantly
propelled by the emergence of micro/nanorobots. The combination of micro/nanorobots and …

Sperm selection is essential to assisted reproductive technology (ART), influencing
treatment outcomes and the health of offspring. The fundamental challenge of sperm …

Fertilization and reproduction are central to the survival and propagation of a species.
Couples who cannot reproduce naturally have to undergo in vitro clinical procedures. An …

Natural sperm selection in humans is a rigorous process resulting in the highest quality
sperm reaching, and having an opportunity to fertilize, the oocyte. Relative to other …