Bermingham team believes that they can dramatically improve measurement accuracy by using a high-power camera to automatically measure a large number of sperm and then use a computer to analyze the sperm's quality.
Smith said, "so we can avoid artificial observation and calculation of sperm errors." In order to achieve this, they are studying many factors, especially the two factors, sperm movement and head shape.
his colleague Jackson Jackson Jackson Kirkman-Brown pointed out that if sperm can not reach the egg, there is no chance to fertilize. So the ability of sperm to swim is very important. "
Dr. Smith said, however, sperm will not swim in straight line like Michael Phelps (Michael Phelps).
"they basically have to swim in mucus and move forward in S shape. The above equations can describe the swimming efficiency of sperm. " Another important factor in
is how the DNA carrying sperm head is arranged in an orderly fashion.
spermatozoa are very tiny, but Japanese researchers have successfully taken detailed pictures of sperm through a mobile phone camera with magnifying lenses.
Dr. Smith said that pattern recognition software helps to process data on mobile phones.
Dr. Smith's research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.