Reproductive Medicine
Reproductive Medicine
Reproductive Medicine
Microfluidic Device Corrals Viable Sperm for IVF
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a microfluidic device to rapidly isolate the strongest and fastest sperm from a sperm sample. The technique should help technicians during the IVF process, as the current method of isolating the...
Reproductive Medicine
3D-Printed Placenta-on-a-Chip Mimics Structure of Placental Membrane
Researchers at TU Wien in Vienna have developed a placenta-on-a-chip microfluidic device which uses a femtosecond laser-based 3D-printing method to create a customized hydrogel membrane. The printed membrane is populated with placental cells and...
Reproductive Medicine
iFertracker Review: An Easy Way to Monitor Basal Body Temp
Getting pregnant is not always as easy as our sex education teachers promised it would be. It can be stressful, frustrating, and heart wrenching. One of the key factors to a successful conception is timing intercourse during the woman’s...
Reproductive Medicine
BewellConnect's MyPeriTens Multi-Action Pelvic Floor Trainer
BewellConnect recently unveiled their new pelvic floor muscle trainer to help women with related issues, including post-partum complications and incontinence. The MyPeriTens device is both an electrical nerve stimulator and electrical muscle...
Reproductive Medicine
Mira, the Home-Use Quantitative Hormone-based Fertility Tracking Device (CES 2018)
Mira is a new compact ovulation predictor device from Mira, a Pleasanton, CA firm, that is based on a fluorescent immunoassay test with 99% accuracy at detecting the Luteinizing hormone (LH), which peaks just before ovulation. At CES 2018 we had...
Reproductive Medicine
Artificial Womb Improves Survival and Health of Premature Lambs
Extreme premature infants are babies that are born before 28 weeks of gestation. Recent technological advances have ensured that these children have improved survival rates; however, babies born around 22-23 weeks of gestation typically have...
Reproductive Medicine
Microfluidic Device Cultured with Human Cells Mimics Female Reproductive System
Scientists from Northwestern University and Draper, an engineering firm, have developed a laboratory model of the female reproductive tract, including the entire menstrual cycle. It consists of a microfluidic device that features multiple...
Reproductive Medicine
Smartphone System for Counting Sperm, Measuring Their Motility at Home
At-home male fertility tests typically only let users count the number of sperm in a sample, but another important characteristics that usually only labs measure is sperm motility, or how energetic the sperm cells are as they move around....
Reproductive Medicine
i.Con, a Smart Ring Turns Sex Into a Tracking Activity
British Condoms, a condom store, claims it's about to release a penile ring that will measure your true performance rather than having to only go off of the screams or silence of your partner. The i.Con has sensors that measure the width of the...
Reproductive Medicine
