2sperm found in 2.5M images
Because of AI, a baby girl was born to a couple who had been told there was no sperm to work with.
Columbia's STAR system scanned 2.5 million images of a 3.5 mL sample in about two hours and found viable sperm where manual microscopy found none; the resulting pregnancy was confirmed in 2025, published in The Lancet in October 2025, and a healthy daughter was born in late 2025.
Sources
- primaryColumbia / The Lancet: First clinical pregnancy following AI-based microfluidic sperm detection (press release)eurekalert.org
- secondaryNational Geographic: The first AI-assisted IVF babies are now being bornnationalgeographic.com
- secondaryDecrypt/BBC: Doctors use AI to spot hidden sperm (birth confirmed)decrypt.co
Editor's notes
verify: reports differ on which couple was the first (a 19-year infertility case in the Lancet letter vs a Klinefelter case in BBC coverage); confirm birth month.
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