Name: AI-guided sperm recovery method used to confirm pregnancy
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Description: Researchers at the Columbia University Fertility Center have reported the first successful pregnancy using a new artificial intelligence method they developed to help with male infertility.

Researchers at the Columbia University Fertility Center have reported the first successful pregnancy using a new artificial intelligence method they developed to help with male infertility.

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Researchers at the Columbia University Fertility Center have announced the first successful pregnancy using a new artificial intelligence (AI) method designed to address male infertility. The method, called STAR (sperm tracking and recovery), was able to locate and recover sperm in men diagnosed with azoospermia, a condition where semen contains little to no sperm cells.

This breakthrough enabled a couple to conceive after nearly twenty years of unsuccessful attempts to start a family. The development highlights the significant role male factors play in infertility and demonstrates how advancements in AI and related technologies are making fertility treatments safer and more effective.

AI-guided sperm recovery method used to confirm pregnancy

While many may think of infertility as a woman's problem, male infertility issues account for 40% of couples who are struggling to have a baby. Now researchers at the Columbia University Fertility Center have reported the first successful pregnancy using a new artificial intelligence method they developed to help with male infertility. The center says it's sperm tracking and recovery method, also known as star, has helped a couple conceive after nearly two decades of trying to start a family. It works by locating and recovering sperm in men. With a zoospermia, a condition in which male samples contain little to no sperm cells. Doctors at Williams joins us now. He's a director of the Columbia University Fertility Center doctor. Thank you so much for being here. We appreciate your time. So how did you get the idea to use AI for this and how does it work? Oh, it's a great question. Actually starts. Appropriately made me for the name of the star system with the stars and astrophysics. So we've known for a long time that one of the most heartbreaking and challenging diagnoses to give is a zoospermia where a man is told, I'm sorry, you have no sperm. And in the past, that's sort of been a very final diagnosis. But we look to the astrophysicists and how they were able to look up into the stars and see a sky of billions of stars and find one or two new ones. And we said maybe we can apply some of the same technologies. Maybe we can apply AI, high speed imaging, microfluidics to allow us to find those one or two precious sperm and then to be able to give them the gift of having a child. I mean, infertility sometimes is incorrectly thought as a woman's problem. Can you clear that up for us? Huge misconception. So about 40 to 50 percent of the time there is the cause for the infertility is partially or completely due to a male factor, sperm factor. What is next in terms of improving fertility treatments? This is a field that's gone through such tremendous progress over the last four decades. We've gone from success rates of less than one percent to now well over 90 percent for the best prognosis patients. I think what we're seeing happening more and more is that fertility treatment is becoming safer. It's becoming more effective and it's helping more and more couples and patients realize the dream of parenthood. Dr. Zell-Williams, thank you. Thank you.

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