Afterword to Sperm morphometrics today and tomorrow special issue in Asian Journal of Andrology
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difference. The fact that only one spermatozoon is enough to achieve a pregnancy has delayed spermatology research in human. On the other hand, the high variability of human infertility cases may make it seem an unattractive investment whereas the opposite is the case: the papers presented here show that investment in the equipment, and the researchers, to correlate clinical data with the morphometric results, would generate a range of observations on sperm subpopulations in fertile and infertile men that could explain currently unexplained causes of infertility.
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