News tagged with semen analysis

UB start-up provides innovative digital sperm analysis to infertile couples worldwide

Couples struggling with fertility problems have a new option for assessing their ability to have a child with the start-up of a new Buffalo-based company called LifeCell Dx, Inc. (LCDX).

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Male infertility associated with testicular cancer

Men who are infertile appear to have an increased risk of developing testicular cancer, according to a report in the February 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Microscope on the go: Cheap, portable, dual-mode microscope uses holograms, not lenses

To serve remote areas of the world, doctors, nurses and field workers need equipment that is portable, versatile, and relatively inexpensive. Now researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Identifying bin Laden, unmasking a rapist: DNA at work

From identifying Osama bin Laden to proving someone guilty of rape or murder, DNA analysis has become an essential scientific tool for police and criminal justice.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UCLA lens-free telemedicine microscope adds male fertility testing to its bag of tricks

Using holographic imaging system, the microscope can produce phase and amplitude images of semen samples in the field and identify which are moving and which are immotile.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ongoing pregnancy rates from vitrified eggs as good as those from fresh

Embryos derived from oocytes (eggs) cryopreserved by the vitrification method are just as likely to produce an on-going pregnancy as those involving fresh oocytes, the 26th annual meeting of the European Society of Human ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

96 percent of vasectomy patients cleared without need for multiple semen samples

Having to provide repeated semen samples following a vasectomy could soon be a thing of the past, after 96 per cent of men were given the all-clear based on a single test three months after surgery.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nanoparticle PSA test predicts if prostate cancer will return

Men who have just had their cancerous prostate gland removed have one pressing question for their doctors: Am I cured? But conventional tests haven't been sensitive enough to provide a concrete answer. Current tests that ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers Develop Test to Identify 'Best' Sperm

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered a method to select sperm with the highest DNA integrity in a bid to improve male fertility. The method is comparable to that of the egg’s ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Origin of HIV transmission between males pinpointed

A team of scientists, led by a virologist from the University of California, San Diego's Center for AID Research (CFAR), has discovered the origin of strains of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among men ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Feb 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Hope for men with nonobstructive infertility

It has been thought that men with non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA), a lack of sperm in the semen not caused by an obstruction within the reproductive system, are poor candidates for IVF. Now, researchers writing in the open ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For young boys with cancer, testicular tissue banking may be option to preserve fertility

For parents of children with cancer, the hopeful news is that pediatric survival rates have steadily improved for decades. Among the bad news—treatments that enable survival often cause infertility.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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