A Fertility Chip
January 3, 2012 | Terry Sharrer
By now, Ph.D. candidate Loes Segerick should have received her degree from the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands). Her dissertation described a lab-on-a-chip device she developed to measure sperm count and their motility based on electrical resistance as they flow through a channel and over an electrode. Commercialization is already underway for an inexpensive home test kit. MORE