Sperm quality is both a fertility measure and a window into men’s overall health, as you’ll hear in this DLD Health session with Seedbox Labs founders Lara Daniel, Avery Haskell and Dr. Hadi Shafiee.
Laura Daniel highlights that millions of people track metrics like sleep and glucose but neglect reproductive health, which is problematic since the “sperm count has dramatically fallen” in recent decades, she notes. “We have one in six couples today who are experiencing infertility.”
Hadi Shafiee shows how his Harvard Medical School lab uses AI across IVF, from embryo grading to rare sperm finding and automated semen analysis, including a system that finds viable sperm in many samples that were previously discarded. “We essentially expanded the threshold of biological fatherhood”, he says, “which is really exciting.”
But the novel approach goes far beyond reproductive health, Avery Haskell emphasizes. “We’re not just building a sperm test, we’re building the infrastructure for male health.”
Watch the video to explore the session in detail.
