Scientists develop algorithm that can spot healthiest sperm - and it could make IVF cheaper!

An artificial intelligence that can scan sperm to work out which are healthiest has been developed by scientists. Even in men who eat well and exercise regularly, barely one in ten sperm are healthy -- and in some men the ratio falls below four percent. At the Oma Clinic in California, however, scientists have developed a'sperm health test' algorithm that scans swimmers for their shape and how they move to pick out the best ones for fertilizing an egg from the crowd. They hope that it will boost success rates with invitro fertilization (IVF) and lower costs, meaning couples will need fewer rounds of the treatment. To develop the algorithm, the scientists began by extracting a subset of sperm from each sample -- which contained up to 20,000 swimmers.