Iranian Inventor Makes Smart Gadget to Diagnose Male Fertility at Home

“This knowledge-based product, developed at the incubator center of the Islamic Azad University’s Ardabil branch, is designed to remove cultural and psychological barriers in diagnosing male fertility,” said Hossein Vaseqi Doudran, the young Iranian inventor.

“The Spoo gadget consists of a small analyzer gadget and an artificial intelligence-based mobile application, measures key sperm parameters like the number, motility and shape based on World Health Organization (WHO) standards and displays the results in the form of a report and video on the user's phone,” he added.

"This gadget is very useful for men who intend to initially examine their fertility status or couples who need continuous monitoring during the treatment process,” Vaseqi Doudran said.

"Spoo is offered at a price of about one-tenth of foreign models, which makes it easier for different classes to access. The 98% accuracy of this device is comparable to laboratory results,” he added.

In a relevant development in January, the head of the biotechnology department of Royan Research Institute in Isfahan said that there is a possibility in Iran for women in their 30s to freeze their eggs for later pregnancy.

“Women in their 30s who are not married should evaluate their egg reserves by performing an AMH test so that, if necessary, they can preserve their fertility chances by freezing their eggs,” said Mohammad Hossein Nasr Esfahani.

Noting that egg freezing is an opportunity for women whose ovarian reserves have decreased due to age to preserve their chances of pregnancy, he said, “However, not every egg means the birth of a baby, and no medical center can guarantee that every egg will turn into a fetus. If pregnancy does not occur naturally after marriage, eggs frozen in a nitrogen tank can provide the necessary substrate for embryo production. In these circumstances, the eggs are removed from the frozen state and fertilized with the partner's sperm until the embryo is transferred to the mother's uterus.”

“In the laboratory, the chance of fertilization of each egg is about 70%, so out of 1,000 eggs collected, about 700 are expected to be fertilized. Of these, approximately 650 will form three-day embryos or 350 five-day embryos, and the chance of pregnancy for each five-day embryo transferred is about 40%,” Nasr Esfahani said.

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