News and Updates

Hamamatsu joins Seed Financing of QART Medical

Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., has joined Chartered Investment Managers, a SEA-based investment management fund, the Tel Aviv University (T.A.U), Technology Innovation Momentum Fund, managed by Ramot, TAU’s Business Engagement Center and a group of angel investors, in the Seed financing round, having an initial closing on March 2019.

QART Medical to Present in ECA 2018

QART Medical’s work on the assessment of DNA fragmentation of individual, unstained human sperm cells, has been accepted for presentation in the 10th Congress of the European Academy of Andrology (EAA). The congress will be held in Budapest, Hungary between October 11-13, 2018.

Research on Stain-Free Sperm DNA Fragmentation Has Been Accepted for Publication

According to CDC’s 2016 Fertility Clinic Success Rates Report, there were 263,577 ART (assisted reproduction technology) cycles performed at 463 reporting clinics in the U.S during 2016, resulting in 65,996 live births, which is 1 out of 4 cycles (source: https://www.cdc.gov/art/artdata/index.html). Recent data consistently demonstrate a significant increase in miscarriage in patients with high DNA damage (i.e. fragmentation) compared with those with low DNA damage.

QART Medical receives notice of EU allowance on patent covering its compact module

Q-ART Medical announces today that its European patent application, named "Portable Interferometric Device" to Shaked et al. has been allowed. The patent teaches the realization of a novel, simple to use, portable, compact and inexpensive platform for interferometric optical thickness measurements that can be easily incorporated into an existing microscopes with integrated cameras.

U.S. Births Dip To 30-Year Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further Below Replacement Level

Congratulations to the 2018 CYTO Innovation Technology Showcase Winner!

2018 CYTO Innovation Technology Showcase Winner

Publications

M. Haifler, P. Girshovitz, G. Band, G. Dardikman, I. Madjar, and N. T. Shaked, “Interferometric phase microscopy for label-free morphological evaluation of sperm cells,” Fertility and Sterility, Vol. 104, Issue 1, pp. 43-47, 2015

M. Balberg, M. Levi, K. Kalinowski, I. Barnea, S. Mirsky, and N. T. Shaked, “Localized measurements of physical parameters within human sperm cells obtained with wide-field interferometry,” Journal of Biophotonics 10, 1305–1314, 2017

S. Mirsky, I. Barnea, and N. T. Shaked, “Label-free quantitative imaging of sperm for in-vitro fertilization using interferometric phase microscopy,” Journal of Fertilization: In Vitro, IVF – Worldwide, Reproductive Medicine, Genetics & Stem Cell Biology, 2016

P. Jacob Eravuchira, S. K. Mirsky, I. Barnea, M. Levi, M. Balberg, and N. T. Shaked, “Individual sperm selection by microfluidics integrated with interferometric phase microscopy,” Methods, Vol. 136, pp. 152-159, 2018

P. Girshovitz and N. T. Shaked, “Doubling the field of view in off-axis low-coherence interferometric imaging,” Nature – Light: Science and Applications (Nature LSA), Vol. 3, e151, pp. 1-9, 2014

P. Girshovitz and N. T. Shaked, “Compact and portable low-coherence interferometer with off-axis geometry for quantitative phase microscopy and nanoscopy,” Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 5, pp. 5701-5714, 2013

N. T. Shaked, “Quantitative phase microscopy of biological samples using a portable interferometer,” Optics Letters Vol. 37, No. 11, 2016-2019, 2012

P. Girshovitz and N. T. Shaked, “Fast phase processing in off-axis holography using multiplexing with complex encoding and live-cell fluctuation map calculation in real-time,” Optics Express, Vol. 23, Issue 7, pp. 8773-8787, 2015

P. Girshovitz and N. T. Shaked, “Real-time quantitative phase reconstruction in off-axis digital holography using multiplexing,” Optics Letters, Vol. 39, No. 8, 2262-2265, 2014

P. Girshovitz and N. T. Shaked, “Generalized cell morphological parameters based on interferometric phase microscopy and their application to cell life cycle characterization,” Biomedical Optics Express, Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 1757-1773, 2012