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Computerised conception

Computerised conception A software programme called Computer Imaging Sperm Selection (CISS) that scientists working with rare animals incarcerated in zoos use to enhance the chances of fertilisation, is now being tested on humans. Recently in London, a woman gave birth to a 4 kg child with the help of this programme.

The programme, after tracking down a sperm which is most likely to fertilise the ovum, picks it out using ultra thin needles (7 times thinner than a human hair) and introduces it to an egg taken from the mother. (Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Vol 37, No 9)

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