Spermbot will take your sperm to the right place!

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5% to 10% of couples experience difficulties in accessing pregnancy. In one to three of these cases, this phenomenon is due to male sterility. Thanks to Spermbot, German researchers hope to solve this problem.

Spermbot, the white sperm cane

After the smart health connected boxer which improves fertilitye male, it's the sperm's turn to be directly smart health connected. The nanorobot takes the form ofa tiny propeller with a micro-motor, allowing to guide the weakest sperm to the egg. For this, this corkscrew-shaped robot will wrap around the flagellum to better protect and lead its host safely. This technique can only be used in the context of theartificial insemination.

Once the sperm with its Spermbot is in the body, the first challenge for this robot will be to hang in the right direction, the head of the sperm in front of the device. Then a magnetic field will guide this polymer nanorobot, coated with a double layer of nickel and titanium, to the ovum. In other words, it is this object of 50 micrometers in length and 5 micrometers in diameter which will accelerate the course of sperm while protecting them.

Close to the oocyte, before the egg is touched, the Spermbot must detach from its host by going in the opposite direction, which according to the first results of the researchers is not always the case. However, it is already possible to see the ehealth published by the American Chemical Society, showing an in vitro spermatozoon equipped with this tool.

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Spermbot in Review phase

Currently, German scientists at the Dresden Institute for Integrative Nanosciences behind this creation believe they have found the right material to make Spermbot, both powerful, controllable and non-dangerous. Tests have been performed on sperm and efficiency is notable according to the results published on December 21, 2015 in the journal Nano letters.

In this article, Mariana Medina-Sanchez, Lukas Schwarz, Anne K. Meyer, Franziska Hebenstreit and Oliver G. Schmidt, the said researchers, concluded that they were able to collect, transport and release sperm under conditions similar to those that they would meet in a womb. An additional advantage for these scientists who would not therefore resort to in vitro fertilization, more expensive although more effective today.

However, for now, no human tests have yet been performed. Furthermore, guidance in the fallopian tubes remains to be improved before the first tests in a natural environment.

If this technique is far from being clinically usable, hopefully by then they will think of equipping the Spermbot with a micro-camera so that we can bet on the sperm which will first hit the egg! And after that, of course don't forget to connect the pregnancy …

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