Instituto Bernabeu organises a training session with embryology experts to introduce them to the new sperm selection plate.

The Alicante clinic has hosted a workshop in which a dozen embryologists from different prestigious Spanish clinics have participated.

The researchers’ team of Instituto Bernabeu has developed an innovative sperm selection plate that received the innovation award at the last edition of the Association for the Study of Reproductive Biology (ASEBIR in Spanish) congress. This Project has aroused the interest of different experts in embryology, who want to know more about this device that “allows us to select spermatozoa with less DNA fragmentation, which results in higher quality embryos”, according to Dr Jorge Ten, director of the Instituto Bernabeu Group embryology laboratory.

The Instituto Bernabeu Alicante clinic has hosted a workshop, in collaboration with the Biochemical Institute (IBSA in Spanish), in which a dozen embryologist from different prestigious Spanish clinics have been able to learn first-hand what this innovative plate consists of and carry out real practices in the clinic’s embryology laboratory.

“It is important for us to innovate in the development of techniques that results in improvements for our patients as it is to share with professionals in the area,” says Dr Jorge Ten, who pointed out the importance of this innovation that “can be applied in the day-to-day work of in vitro fertilisation laboratories and improves results for patients”.

This device is still in the study phase, but preliminary results have shown very positive results, with substantial improvements in the embryos quality and quantity. The project, known as “SUPERSPERM”, began with a pilot study in 2021 with 1,000 oocytes, where it was shown that sperm selected through granulosa cells generated better quality embryos.