... Men are embarrassed to go to their urologist for infertility testing," said Dr. Hadi Shafiee, assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, who led the study. "This is going to be the first fully automated device to make infertility testing as simple as home pregnancy tests for women," he said. Shafiee's team tested its device on 350 unwashed and unprocessed semen samples from a fertility clinic to evaluate semen quality based on World Health Organization guidelines. It was able to identify abnormal sperm samples, based on sperm concentration and motility, and determine infertility with roughly 98% accuracy. The inexpensive nature may also help it be of use in developing countries, where infertility testing is not as common and often culturally problematic, according to Shafiee.

Source: CNN March 22, 2017 18:02 UTC