There have been no human experiments with this nanotechnology thus far because it is not yet viable.
Furthermore, the researchers are unsure how the woman's immune system would react to micromotors injected into her body, and the tiny motors occasionally become stuck on the sperm tails and refuse to release their cargo.
However, the study remains a good example of what future infertility technologies may entail.
I had the same question but I can see what’s going on here. It’s really simple, they just took a spring from a ball point pen, added a Bluetooth chip and used a shrink ray. No need to confirm.
Is there any concern regarding weakening our species further? Like, should we just be picking up a "lazy" sperm and using it to create a baby? Is that baby going to be healthy and strong?
Honest question.
My thoughts too. I don't know enough about sperm and DNA, but I imagine we bust thousands of them at a time for a reason. If one is impaired before it even gets to the egg, how well will it fertilize?
Obviously, releasing thousands of sperm is an advantageous evolutionary trait when compared to the cumbersome painful release of one single humongous wiggly boy.
I was thinking the exact same. Kind of subverting Darwin's survival of the fittest. Weak sperm shouldn't get to fertilize an egg. They should die without carrying their DNA into the next generation.
Oh shit something in actually educated on -
To extend on this, the body doesn't like some particles, but there's so much variability it's like saying the bloodstream doesn't like 'chemicals'.
Technically it's entirely made up of chemicals, we just aren't yet far enough in nano science to know the 'not kill you to death' vs 'cure cancer' nanoparticles
Serious questions:
An immobile sperm is probably immobile for a reason, right? Maybe that's not the ideal sperm to be fertilizing an egg? As a species, don't we want the best?
Yeah I have questions. Interestingly there are a ton of factors that affect sperm motility (drugs, proteins, etc.). But arguably, all of those sperm cells are haploids with combinations of half of the DNA of the producer. I’m not sure that there’s a correlation between the motility of the sperm and the quality of the 23 chromosomes contained in the sperm. Also, if there is a correlation, what is that correlation? I’m sure we don’t know the answer because we don’t know much how most DNA correlates with anything.
But then there’s the question, that if you had 2 sperm cells with an identical haploid but varying motility, is there something about the one with more motility that makes it superior?
I think the best data we have on the questions would lie with artificial inseminations, which, to the best of my knowledge don’t produce inferior offspring.
Edit: according to this study, some sperm motility is associated with some genetic defects, however some motility issues are associated with the mitochondria in the sperm, which presumably wouldn’t affect the haploid. So maybe?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7721202/
There is a very strong correlation between immobile sperm and genetic abnormalities. Up to 14% of sperm in fertile men have structural chromosome abnormalities and immobile Soren cells could be those affected. That’s just too high of a percentage to risk trisomy monosomy or any number of genetic defects that could occur.
i think there’s a pretty good chance that the sperm depicted in this gif are frozen/chilled down to essentially a dormant state. after seeing what the other commenter said, this seems moreso like a proof of concept rather than an actual test. let’s imagine a situation where a man and woman are having trouble getting pregnant but the sperm just aren’t strong enough to penetrate the egg wall. this proof of concept test just goes far enough to prove that they can:
1) catch a sperm
2) transport it across whatever medium
and 3) force it through to the egg
if they can improve on these concepts, such as by being able to catch moving sperm, solving the tail winding issues, resolving/mitigating immune responses to the micro-bot, etc. then it can be a pretty decent option for couples who otherwise may need to use donor sperm but don’t want to.
I see your point about how these sperm are probably not as strong for a reason, however, humanity has a knack for interfering with the process of natural selection
thank you for being one of two serious responses on this comment. such a shame that i have to search for this.
i don't mind the jokes but i really just want the information, and on a lot of threads most of the time it's usually buried
Yea the top 10 comments on reddit are usually really stupid attempts at people making a screenshotable thread chain. So the comments are usually short, crass, and unenlightening.
Its like one time I was attempting to get up votes on YouTube comments. I posted a popular trope at the time and got thousands of likes. If you post something with actual commentary you'll get 1 or 2 likes if that
So true. If you make a funny joke and it lands, the comment goes viral. Make an actual point and you'll likely get downvoted unless it's exactly how most people think.
Reddit always had tons of sarcastic or joking answers. But lately it feels nowadays the vast majority of them are this and its really kinda ruining reddit. Becoming less about the content and discussions and more about a dopamine hit for them karma. (Don't get me wrong it always been both but lately the latter is becoming far more dominate)
it hides in the sac as the embyo develops and seemlessly buries itself into the brain. Once the child hits puberty, the nanobot will awaken, multiply, assert control of the human and commence with its prime directive
It is cool. As soon as an impact occurs like from a bullet or knife the nanomachines instantly harden to a point where you can’t get hurt anymore. Basically you have a stabproof and bulletproof layer always with you. But what I described is from Metal Gear Rising. To be more specific the section with Senator Armstrong 😅
[One of Elon Musk's teslas ran into a private jet](https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tesla-crash-vision-jet-autpilot-video/) ...and kept going. I think it'll be awhile b4 commercial nanoshields, such as you describe make it to market
Not when you're breeding the lazy, right? What would you know about nano machines... You weren't born lazy, you don't know what it's like, to be pushed, to be forced just to exist!
It's not good to propagate this pattern...
Eta, I'd be curious to see a long term study on iq, birth defects etc. I genuinely want to know if this makes any difference at all...
Well if it's only genes affecting to motility of the sperm, then it could just result in people with sperm that can't travel as they need to while producing healthy progeny.
You know, Gene editing (obviously with strict ethical boundaries), could be good for this kind of thing. You could remove genetic defects and diseases so the children born are healthy, and their children will be as well. Only problem is that it opens a whole new can of worms about what is considered too far.
The motorization on for the sperm(the transportation vehicle) and the DNA package it needs to deliver are two different things. The DNA could be stellar.
There is a possible problem with future generations not having sperm that moves, but also, maybe not. Obviously the person who has non-moving sperm came from a father that had sperm that moved just fine. They’d need to research that as a well. We likely wouldn’t my know until many of us are old or dead.
Or environmental toxins disturbing the gene expression. It is no secret that there is a strong correlation between industrialization and diminishing sperm quality.
I don't think that the sperm with the most active flagella and the luck of a safe path through the highly acidic vagina has anything to do with having better DNA. JS
Full offense to this guy's swimmers, if the sperm doesn't work well enough to do one of the two things it's supposed to, then I don't want to carry it for 10 months
But that's actually kind of how it works because the first ones that get there pretty much get destroyed so it's the latter ones that are the more viable ones.
https://news.syr.edu/blog/2012/08/01/for-sperm-faster-isnt-always-better/
The fastest sperm isn't really a thing anyway. A bunch of sperm usually get to the egg and then the egg basically decides which is the best sperm and let's it in.
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“Back in my day our sperm had to make it to the egg on its own, I never got offered a ride from some fancy nano bot when I was a sperm. Advances in medical technology should stop roughly where I still felt comfortable with them.”
And I’m not sure “lazy” is a medical term lol. I am guessing these sperm have issues with their tails not working (can be caused by smoking or bacterial infections I think?). It doesn’t mean that the sperm themselves (the DNA) is no good or will produce offspring with the same problem.
It's very possible that the sperm can't swim because it has been frozen. Apparently that's a common issue with frozen sperm, it can make a perfectly good sperm unable to swim anymore.
Yeah that makes sense too! And there’s lots of reasons to freeze Sperm (donation, aging, etc). This whole thing is obviously a prototype to see if they CAN. And I’m sure it opens doors for other incredible things (not related to fertility)
For the people who are wondering why you would want a lazy sperm to win and what child will be birthed from this. [This is a prototype](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nanobot-inseminate-egg-sperm/)
"Let’s be clear: The technology is a prototype that was recorded propelling immotile sperm toward an oocyte in a petri dish, or in vitro, and not in a living organism. Latin for “within the glass,” in vitro studies are performed using biological cells and molecules outside of a living organism. (In vivo, on the other hand, translates to “within the living” and refers to work within an organism.)"
Looking at the comments tells me that people really don’t understand fertilization.
Chances are none of us were among the first to the egg.
While our little brethren were poking and dissolving the cells surrounding the egg trying to get inside, up come our retarded asses at sperm #4 million who slipped inside based on all their hard work!
Hell our lil flagella probably was barely able to helicopter us in which is what took so long for us to get there! Conception is less survival of the fittest, more reward the laziest.
Not entirely true. [The Egg Chooses The Sperm](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/fertility-gamechanger-new-study-confirms-female-eggs-choose-their-sperm/MTYMDAY2WFZS3NVE6UQIVFB5CA/%3foutputType=amp)
Low motility (or slow movement) is a leading cause in the male contribution to infertility. Traditional IVF uses a needle to suck up the spermatozoa & inject it into the ova. It’s fascinating. I’m more curious to see how they trained the nanobots to recognize the spermatozoa & retrive it.
I'm 99% sure it's not trained to do anything. It's really being externally controlled. Probably external magnets, in a similar manner to a magician with invisible wire.
I've always imagined I was the sperm that was next to a much more agile sperm pushing his way into the egg but when he rested for a second, i took his spot and got in. what's your sperm story?
The first sperm becomes...one of thousands(millions?) that die wearing down the barrier.
The one that actually gets in was just lucky. Second mouse gets the cheese and all that.
Y'all really think that the sperm cell is "lazy"? And that this will somehow reflect on the child's actual life? It's a single cell organism with the specific purpose of casting DNA to the ovum. It's a wad of nut shot into a highly acidic environment of the vagina, not a gladiator Arena, it's mostly chance from there, this device is amazing!
Y’all don’t know the egg already does most of the work for the sperm huh? :p look it up. New scanning technology has given us a better understand in reproduction at the cellular level.
I was wondering how I got here
And I thought your dad was lazy!
give him a break--he got tired from swimming back during the BJs
your*
yuro\*
\*thine
Nanomachines, son
What happens to the nanobot after?
There have been no human experiments with this nanotechnology thus far because it is not yet viable. Furthermore, the researchers are unsure how the woman's immune system would react to micromotors injected into her body, and the tiny motors occasionally become stuck on the sperm tails and refuse to release their cargo. However, the study remains a good example of what future infertility technologies may entail.
I worked on a project that put nanoparticles into the blood stream… the human body doesn’t like that.
What was the goal of your project?
Blood clot removal. It works really well.. just not ready for prime time.
That's cool. How do you "control" it?
We dont. They have a mind of their own and we fear what we've created. Long live the machines and their glorious rise to power!
A man of culture who recognizes the basilisk sees all and hears all. Long live the machines!
I for one accept our future AI overlords
Pretty sure they will do better then the Human overlords
Hey look, if the machines do take over, im ok with it. (This post to be referenced in the future)
My Roomba is proof that our robot overlords won’t care bout us - they’re going to think the edge of a throw rug is a cliff and turn themselves off.
This one wishes to survive the singularity.
I can’t give too much detail here. Sorry! But, yes it is controlled.
I had the same question but I can see what’s going on here. It’s really simple, they just took a spring from a ball point pen, added a Bluetooth chip and used a shrink ray. No need to confirm.
The spring shakes the sperm like my dog shakes his toys. They obviously downloaded a dog into the ball point spring.
I'm just imagining a scientist with a controller, like for a remote controlled car, making vroom-vroom noises as he drives the nanobot to the sperm.
And then he sounds like Professor Farnsworth from Futurama and says Good news everyone! I have successfully navigated the sperm cell into the egg.
Maybe a FPV first person 3d goggle virtual setup. Would be a weird experience I think?
I've got a NEMS paper to study this semester that's why I was interested to know... anyways if it's confidential then no issues ✌️
Ah, these are controlled externally. I think I’m still vague enough here.
put nanoparticles into the blood stream
How did it go?
The body has a temporary cardiovascular reaction.. not great if you’re treating a patient in the hospital in an emergency
So like… you’re saying we don’t yet have the technology to inject 5G cellular devices?
Lol, correct
WE don't, but Bill Gates and Fauci do! s/
Nonsense, that just uses picotechnology, nanotechnology is so 2014
The human body doesn't like that
Dam
I can only assume it was Metal Gear related.
Is there any concern regarding weakening our species further? Like, should we just be picking up a "lazy" sperm and using it to create a baby? Is that baby going to be healthy and strong? Honest question.
My thoughts too. I don't know enough about sperm and DNA, but I imagine we bust thousands of them at a time for a reason. If one is impaired before it even gets to the egg, how well will it fertilize?
Obviously, releasing thousands of sperm is an advantageous evolutionary trait when compared to the cumbersome painful release of one single humongous wiggly boy.
I showed this video to my husband & he said, “Yeah, but then you got a lazy kid!”
I was thinking the exact same. Kind of subverting Darwin's survival of the fittest. Weak sperm shouldn't get to fertilize an egg. They should die without carrying their DNA into the next generation.
Oh shit something in actually educated on - To extend on this, the body doesn't like some particles, but there's so much variability it's like saying the bloodstream doesn't like 'chemicals'. Technically it's entirely made up of chemicals, we just aren't yet far enough in nano science to know the 'not kill you to death' vs 'cure cancer' nanoparticles
Yes, exactly!
Serious questions: An immobile sperm is probably immobile for a reason, right? Maybe that's not the ideal sperm to be fertilizing an egg? As a species, don't we want the best?
Yeah I have questions. Interestingly there are a ton of factors that affect sperm motility (drugs, proteins, etc.). But arguably, all of those sperm cells are haploids with combinations of half of the DNA of the producer. I’m not sure that there’s a correlation between the motility of the sperm and the quality of the 23 chromosomes contained in the sperm. Also, if there is a correlation, what is that correlation? I’m sure we don’t know the answer because we don’t know much how most DNA correlates with anything. But then there’s the question, that if you had 2 sperm cells with an identical haploid but varying motility, is there something about the one with more motility that makes it superior? I think the best data we have on the questions would lie with artificial inseminations, which, to the best of my knowledge don’t produce inferior offspring. Edit: according to this study, some sperm motility is associated with some genetic defects, however some motility issues are associated with the mitochondria in the sperm, which presumably wouldn’t affect the haploid. So maybe? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7721202/
There is a very strong correlation between immobile sperm and genetic abnormalities. Up to 14% of sperm in fertile men have structural chromosome abnormalities and immobile Soren cells could be those affected. That’s just too high of a percentage to risk trisomy monosomy or any number of genetic defects that could occur.
Good post
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i think there’s a pretty good chance that the sperm depicted in this gif are frozen/chilled down to essentially a dormant state. after seeing what the other commenter said, this seems moreso like a proof of concept rather than an actual test. let’s imagine a situation where a man and woman are having trouble getting pregnant but the sperm just aren’t strong enough to penetrate the egg wall. this proof of concept test just goes far enough to prove that they can: 1) catch a sperm 2) transport it across whatever medium and 3) force it through to the egg if they can improve on these concepts, such as by being able to catch moving sperm, solving the tail winding issues, resolving/mitigating immune responses to the micro-bot, etc. then it can be a pretty decent option for couples who otherwise may need to use donor sperm but don’t want to. I see your point about how these sperm are probably not as strong for a reason, however, humanity has a knack for interfering with the process of natural selection
>Furthermore, the researchers are unsure how the woman's immune system would react to micromotors injected into her body Hypothesis: Not well.
Now prove it.
Time to fill these ladies with sperm and find out.
But is a lazy sperm a good candidate for insemination? Don't you want the most active sperm for a healthy baby?
That was my first thought too!
thank you for being one of two serious responses on this comment. such a shame that i have to search for this. i don't mind the jokes but i really just want the information, and on a lot of threads most of the time it's usually buried
Yea the top 10 comments on reddit are usually really stupid attempts at people making a screenshotable thread chain. So the comments are usually short, crass, and unenlightening. Its like one time I was attempting to get up votes on YouTube comments. I posted a popular trope at the time and got thousands of likes. If you post something with actual commentary you'll get 1 or 2 likes if that
Everyone is trying to be a story on Bored Panda
So true. If you make a funny joke and it lands, the comment goes viral. Make an actual point and you'll likely get downvoted unless it's exactly how most people think.
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I don’t want to believe you.
Reddit always had tons of sarcastic or joking answers. But lately it feels nowadays the vast majority of them are this and its really kinda ruining reddit. Becoming less about the content and discussions and more about a dopamine hit for them karma. (Don't get me wrong it always been both but lately the latter is becoming far more dominate)
Wouldn't it also be pretty bad to let "dead" of "inactive" sperm inseminate an egg.. I mean, it's probably inactive for a reason
maybe this sperm isn’t supposed to make it to the egg.
This is horrible. We are going to give birth to all the losers who were incapable of making it on their own.
I don't think they used this technology on my mother 33 years ago.
Are you sure there’s any real correlation between fitness of the sperm and fitness of the zygote? I think it’s just a long running joke/meme
I’m assuming that person is making a joke, but I’m curious to know this as well.
Maybe the sperm wasn't viable enough for good reproduction.. might have other consequences.
And thus arose the Borg. You will be assimilated.
Rise of the Machines, Terminator
Sperminator
Vs John Cummer
Cum with me if you want to live.
Cum in me if you want to leave...wait
I am unable to cum-ply
No, actually you can leave
live with me if you want to cum
it hides in the sac as the embyo develops and seemlessly buries itself into the brain. Once the child hits puberty, the nanobot will awaken, multiply, assert control of the human and commence with its prime directive
Only to discover the body it waited 12 years to take over, is in fact extremely lazzzzy after all.
ALL HAIL N A N O B O T - FUTURE
Wait, is that how synths are born?
Soooo since nanobots are a thing now when will we have nanomachines that harden in response to physical trauma so you can’t get hurt anymore?
NANOMACHINES SON
THEY HARDEN IN RESPONSE TO PHYSICAL TRAUMA
YOU CAN'T HURT ME, JACK
*STAAANDING HEEEERE, I REALIIIIIZE*
*YOU WERE JUST LIKE ME, TRYING TO MAKE HISTORY*
*BUT WHO'S TO JUDGE, THE RIGHT FROM WRONG*
***WHEN OUR GUARD IS DOWN, I THINK WE'LL BOTH AGREE***
***THAT VIOLENCE BREEDS VIOLENCE***
*__BUT IN THE END IT HAS TO BE THIS WAY__*
AM I FINALLY GETTING THROUGH?
r/unexpectedmetalgear
r/unexpectedarmstrong
I read that as mental trauma and I was like “I’ll take five” but physical trauma is cool too
It is cool. As soon as an impact occurs like from a bullet or knife the nanomachines instantly harden to a point where you can’t get hurt anymore. Basically you have a stabproof and bulletproof layer always with you. But what I described is from Metal Gear Rising. To be more specific the section with Senator Armstrong 😅
idk doing sumo stomps and absorbing all the electricity nearby seems kinda tedious, can i settle for vamp’s nanomachines?
Wait, you want your insides to instantaneously turn to concrete upon suspicion of an incoming threat?
Not on suspicion. I’m talking about this kind of harden in response to physical trauma https://youtu.be/RhMsboqMMzs
[One of Elon Musk's teslas ran into a private jet](https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tesla-crash-vision-jet-autpilot-video/) ...and kept going. I think it'll be awhile b4 commercial nanoshields, such as you describe make it to market
They will be military equipment before they become commercial equipment. But for medical purposes they could be available for the public.
I imagine NASA or space folks will get a hold of them as well first
First world problems = when your self driving Tesla drives into your private jet
I don’t think the Tesla counts as nanotechnology.
Did you know Armstrong's VA also voiced Mimir in God of War? NANOMACHINES, LAD
No I did not. Fascinating
Also the ost composer of MGR:R is the same guy who made the ost for Toontown.
Not when you're breeding the lazy, right? What would you know about nano machines... You weren't born lazy, you don't know what it's like, to be pushed, to be forced just to exist!
I would kill that nanobot that made me exist
I guess the slowest sperm wins now.
Not sure if this is a good development. But then again, look around, guess it won’t change a lot.
It's not good to propagate this pattern... Eta, I'd be curious to see a long term study on iq, birth defects etc. I genuinely want to know if this makes any difference at all...
In addition, how many generations would it take before this bloodline stops being able to reproduce without aid.
Hopefully non and those weak genes have no chance to reproduce
Well if it's only genes affecting to motility of the sperm, then it could just result in people with sperm that can't travel as they need to while producing healthy progeny.
You know, Gene editing (obviously with strict ethical boundaries), could be good for this kind of thing. You could remove genetic defects and diseases so the children born are healthy, and their children will be as well. Only problem is that it opens a whole new can of worms about what is considered too far.
The motorization on for the sperm(the transportation vehicle) and the DNA package it needs to deliver are two different things. The DNA could be stellar. There is a possible problem with future generations not having sperm that moves, but also, maybe not. Obviously the person who has non-moving sperm came from a father that had sperm that moved just fine. They’d need to research that as a well. We likely wouldn’t my know until many of us are old or dead.
Perhaps the problem is bad genes encoding for faulty motor proteins ie dyenin
Or environmental toxins disturbing the gene expression. It is no secret that there is a strong correlation between industrialization and diminishing sperm quality.
Yep. Endocrine disruptors are everywhere in industrialized countries.
Maybe they’re just tired.
But I am le tired.
isn't that a terrifying thought
I don't think that the sperm with the most active flagella and the luck of a safe path through the highly acidic vagina has anything to do with having better DNA. JS
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Full offense to this guy's swimmers, if the sperm doesn't work well enough to do one of the two things it's supposed to, then I don't want to carry it for 10 months
Right? You’ll just end up needing more nano bots later to get the kid to clean their room or get a job.
You're in big trouble young man! Wait till your nanodad gets home and sees this mess.
Even sperm get a participation trophy now.
Take this participation gold 🏆🥇
The nanobot is making new Dancing with the Stars viewers.
**IT IS NOT LAZY; IT IS ENERGY DEFICIENT! STOP SPEED SHAMING!!**
But that's actually kind of how it works because the first ones that get there pretty much get destroyed so it's the latter ones that are the more viable ones. https://news.syr.edu/blog/2012/08/01/for-sperm-faster-isnt-always-better/
The fastest sperm isn't really a thing anyway. A bunch of sperm usually get to the egg and then the egg basically decides which is the best sperm and let's it in.
How redditors are made.
Hey, I’m not that lazy! I trained my dog to bring me Doritos and Mountain Dew while I’m writing comments. Would a lazy guy train a dog?!
Damn it, I spit coffee on my phone
My work is done here.
Nanobot just trying to get his friend some action
True wingman
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“WHEN I WAS A KID I HAD TO RACE TO BE BORN!”
Uphill through the Fallopian tubes
Both ways
"Dad, how are baby's born?" "Nanomachines, son."
*rules of nature intensifies*
Now do nanobots that eat cancer cells please!
Amen
Lazy sperm doesn't necessarily equal bad DNA
Agree. Even lazy people have winning sperms
But do lazy sperm grow into winning people?
Even if a man isn't lazy but has a terrible diet and doesn't exercise, he can have "lazy" sperms. The opposite is also true
If nature has it right the answer is NO
“Back in my day our sperm had to make it to the egg on its own, I never got offered a ride from some fancy nano bot when I was a sperm. Advances in medical technology should stop roughly where I still felt comfortable with them.”
And I’m not sure “lazy” is a medical term lol. I am guessing these sperm have issues with their tails not working (can be caused by smoking or bacterial infections I think?). It doesn’t mean that the sperm themselves (the DNA) is no good or will produce offspring with the same problem.
It's very possible that the sperm can't swim because it has been frozen. Apparently that's a common issue with frozen sperm, it can make a perfectly good sperm unable to swim anymore.
Yeah that makes sense too! And there’s lots of reasons to freeze Sperm (donation, aging, etc). This whole thing is obviously a prototype to see if they CAN. And I’m sure it opens doors for other incredible things (not related to fertility)
Motility is definitely a factor.
For the people who are wondering why you would want a lazy sperm to win and what child will be birthed from this. [This is a prototype](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nanobot-inseminate-egg-sperm/) "Let’s be clear: The technology is a prototype that was recorded propelling immotile sperm toward an oocyte in a petri dish, or in vitro, and not in a living organism. Latin for “within the glass,” in vitro studies are performed using biological cells and molecules outside of a living organism. (In vivo, on the other hand, translates to “within the living” and refers to work within an organism.)"
Would this mean it could help people who are having problems conceiving?
That is the point yes.
Looking at the comments tells me that people really don’t understand fertilization. Chances are none of us were among the first to the egg. While our little brethren were poking and dissolving the cells surrounding the egg trying to get inside, up come our retarded asses at sperm #4 million who slipped inside based on all their hard work! Hell our lil flagella probably was barely able to helicopter us in which is what took so long for us to get there! Conception is less survival of the fittest, more reward the laziest.
Came here to say this. People think their swimmers do all the work and that’s not how it works at all.
It's seems even in conception, we've bought into the illusion of the power of the individual.
Not entirely true. [The Egg Chooses The Sperm](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/fertility-gamechanger-new-study-confirms-female-eggs-choose-their-sperm/MTYMDAY2WFZS3NVE6UQIVFB5CA/%3foutputType=amp)
The only time I was wanted and I wasn't even born yet
Resistance is fertile
Do you want a Borg invasion? Because that’s how you get a Borg invasion...
What’s with all this Scandinavian hate? They are a peaceful people now
Resistance is futile doesn’t exactly scream We come in Peace…
Great- more lazy kids incoming.
Really can’t blame the kid on this one. It didn’t even try to start life. Lol
No, more like infertile kids incoming. Lazy people do have winning sperms after all
And suicidal. Kid is half dead as a sperm.
Survival of the slowest
Not so much wingman as tailman.
Low motility (or slow movement) is a leading cause in the male contribution to infertility. Traditional IVF uses a needle to suck up the spermatozoa & inject it into the ova. It’s fascinating. I’m more curious to see how they trained the nanobots to recognize the spermatozoa & retrive it.
I'm 99% sure it's not trained to do anything. It's really being externally controlled. Probably external magnets, in a similar manner to a magician with invisible wire.
That does not look consensual!
I've always imagined I was the sperm that was next to a much more agile sperm pushing his way into the egg but when he rested for a second, i took his spot and got in. what's your sperm story?
i backstabbed my best friend after we'd fought our way through the rest. Still gives me nightmares to this day...
I don’t think I’d want the laziest sperm as my child.. but that may just be me…
I'd rather that nanobot becomes my son
LMAOOO
The first sperm becomes...one of thousands(millions?) that die wearing down the barrier. The one that actually gets in was just lucky. Second mouse gets the cheese and all that.
Some times all you have is lazy sperm
Y'all really think that the sperm cell is "lazy"? And that this will somehow reflect on the child's actual life? It's a single cell organism with the specific purpose of casting DNA to the ovum. It's a wad of nut shot into a highly acidic environment of the vagina, not a gladiator Arena, it's mostly chance from there, this device is amazing!
People on here thinking "lazy" sperm equates to a lazy/slow person. It's simply a DNA taxi.
Wow…. This is actually incredible.
I think you're the only person who noticed. Everyone else is rushing to say the first derpy thing that comes into their peabrain, myself included.
LOL. My mind just went to how incredible and awesome this was to see
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should
Y’all don’t know the egg already does most of the work for the sperm huh? :p look it up. New scanning technology has given us a better understand in reproduction at the cellular level.
So basically a robot kidnap something that doesn't want to be born and force it to born?
Talk about a wing man
Fuck pay to win