Tales of a spermatological variety—finding master right

Excerpt

Reflecting on what has been an amazing year of discovery in the biology of sperm, especially from an ART perspective, brings pause to the process and promise of selecting the very best candidate for incipient IVF or ICSI patients anxiously waiting with eggs in hand. The matter of sperm selection stands firmly as a challenge for urologists, andrologists and embryologists alike whether working up the plethora of likely suitors residing in a normal ejaculate or desperately seeking the scarce spermatozoa looming within a TESA sample. With selection strategies moving well beyond the tell-tale signs of normality accorded traditional semen analysis, the search for “Master Right” is acquiring a technological cloak that is unmasking the deep and dark truths buried within the process of spermatogenesis. Consistent with the dawning of new technologies for sperm selection are a series of papers in this issue of JARG that both portend and preview a world of spermatological wonder that will come to play a greater and greater role in the practice of human ARTs. …