By Anne Craig, Communications Officer

Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트 researcher Richard Oko and his co-investigators have come up with a promising method of treating male infertility using a synthetic version of the sperm-originated protein known as PAWP.

They found this protein is sufficient and required to initiate the fertilization process.

Dr. Oko카지노 게임 컬렉션�s research promises to diagnose and treat cases of male factor infertility where a patient카지노 게임 컬렉션�s sperm is unable to initiate or induce activation of the egg to form an early embryo.

Richard Oko is working to treat male infertility.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�PAWP is able to induce embryo development in human eggs in a fashion similar to the natural triggering of embryo development by the sperm cell during fertilization,카지노 게임 컬렉션� explains Dr. Oko (Biomedical and Molecular Sciences). 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Based on our findings, we envision that physicians will be able to improve their diagnosis and treatment of infertility, a problem that affects 10 to 15 per cent of couples worldwide.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

The results of this study highlight the potential clinical applications of sperm PAWP as a predictor of infertility treatment. Since most human infertility treatments are now done by injecting a single sperm directly into an egg, supplementation of human sperm with PAWP protein may potentially be used to improve the success rate of infertility treatments in the future.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 2013 Annual Report on Assisted Reproductive Technologies, only about 37 per cent of treatment cycles lead to successful pregnancy. This low success rate may be due to a variety of factors in the male and female including the inability of sperm cell to initiate fertilization and trigger embryo development upon egg entry.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�The results of our study set the stage for further investigation of PAWP protein as a molecular marker for diagnosis and as a factor for improvement of infertility treatments,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Dr. Oko.

Dr. Oko worked with his former PhD student Mahmoud Aarabi and Clifford Librach and Hanna Balakier at the CReATe Fertility Centre in Toronto on this latest research, which was published in the , the world카지노 게임 컬렉션�s most cited biology journal.