Sperm Sorting Chip

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 25, 2003 @10:28AM from the where-are-the-eggs dept.

Makarand writes "Microscopically narrow fluid streams running side by side barely mix - a phenomenon put to use in a new stamp size silicon chip for purifying sperm. This technique could find use in infertility clinics where centrifugal technqiues, which can damage fragile sperm, are currently used to purify sperm. Semen and salt water are dripped into etched lanes less than half a millimeter wide from opposite ends of the chip. When the lanes merge, the healthy and wriggly sperm swim into the salt water stream and leave the dead and the disabled sperm behind."

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Re:Special request by Kizzle · 2003-05-25 11:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Ok, two sperm chips walk into a bar...

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Centrifugal techniques by Pall+Agamemnides · 2003-05-25 13:26 · Score: 5, Funny

This technique could find use in infertility clinics where centrifugal technqiues, which can damage fragile sperm...

If centrifugal techniques can damage sperm cells, just imagine what a centrifuge will do to the rest of the guy undergoing the treatment! You'll never get me into one of those deathtraps!
Wondering... by JDWTopGuy · 2003-05-25 14:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Would it be fair to say that this is "seminal research"?

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