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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		A study looks into the mystery of male infertility
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:03
	Publish Date:		2016-07-06 19:00:00
	Description:		Why are the majority of male infertility cases a mystery? While 80% of female infertility cases can be diagnosed and dealt with, the same percentage of male infertility cases are untreatable. Biologist Polina Lishko of the University of California, Berkeley says the key might be at the molecular level of the sperm. In a recent project, Lishko documented the proteins in a human sperm cell hoping to provide a starting point for research in this field. "The current situation with male fertility is quite dramatic. And part of the reason why we are so low on our good diagnostics of male infertility is that we don’t know what makes the human sperm cell fertile. So that’s why it’s absolutely important to understand what’s going on, how they work, then we can help to design better diagnostics, and we can help infertile couples boost sperm fertility, if you understand why they’re infertile." By unraveling the molecular nuances of fertilization, Lishko hopes researchers can finally explain the technicalities of human reproduction.
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