November, 2022 - SpOvum® Blog

SpOvum’s brief interaction with the Oasis team

SpOvum^® got an opportunity to present its product portfolio to the team of Oasis fertility headed by Dr Krishna Chaitanya in the early morning of 29th November 2022. Though it was originally expected to be brief (about fifteen minutes) it got extended! Thanks to the intriguing interaction. Dr Krishna and Dr Gaurav had some wonderful questions and were appreciative of SpOvum’s initiative in bringing innovations to the A.R.T. space through Robotics, Automation, and AI.

SpOvum presented its flagship product – RoboICSI^® and its ICSI workbench – RIWB^™. The scope of automation and some of the key aspects that the innovation can address were discussed. The meeting happened virtually over the Zoom video communication platform. Further, SpOvum presented a live demo of the RoboICSI^® gripper-holder, the workbench comprising the programmable manipulators, the Electronic aspiration system controlled by a click-based controller, and an indigenously designed button controller.

SpOvum wishes to engage with the Oasis fertility team to bring a synergetic approach to addressing some of the needs of the IVF ecosystem. As the vision statement of Oasis indicates “To be the trusted experts and leaders in providing evidence-based fertility treatments with compassion” SpOvum has found a common ground for a strong collaboration. Looking forward to a brighter future!

Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder

The connection of beauty to the eyes of the beholder is much deeper than what it looks. Different people have different perception of reality or on things. Some might find somethings good while other may find it bad. In this study let us concentrate on Morphological inspection.It is the best tool and it has wide range of observations for a given sample…Let’s find out how?. The image below was asked for assessment to the embryologists in a conference and was told to grade the oocyte accordingly.

Oocyte image given for the quiz [courtesy : ESHRE Atlas of human embryology]

Around 20 of them took up the quick quiz. The image that was given during the quiz was taken from ESHRE Atlas of human embryology. Below the image were a list of buttons which were related to the grading of the oocytes like: Maturity, Size, Zona, SER etc. They had to select the appropriate options referring to the image.

The result of the quiz was made into a pie charts for better representation and understanding. We were surprised to see the answers obtained.

Zona appearance, for example appeared to be Uniform for 63.2% of them and Non-uniform for 36.8%.

Likewise, maturity of oocyte for a M2 oocyte was 83.3%, M1- 11.1% and GV 5.6%.

Maturity graph [M2;GV;M1]

Grading the oocyte based on quality, 50% has told it is good, 25% abnormal, 15% approximately mature and 10% said almost normal.

Grade quality of the oocyte

The polar body had sections like – Shape, texture, size and fragments. Shape: 2 of them found it to be irregular, 10 of them opted oval and 5 of them found the oocyte to be round. Based on the texture of PB- 10 of them found it smooth and 7 of them rough. The PB size was selected normal by 15 of them, smaller and enlarged by 5 of them. 7 of them found the PB to be fragmented whereas 9 of them found the PB to be normal without any fragments.