Synthetic Pot May Aid Fertility

A reproductive medicine specialist at the University at Buffalo has shown that a new compound may improve the fertility of tobacco smokers who have low sperm count and low percentage sperm motility. The sperm from male smokers were washed with a synthetic chemical called AM-1346. After incubation, there was a doubling in the fertilising capacity of sperm from poor quality semen, results showed. Lani Burkman and colleagues presented the findings at the 2006 meeting of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine held in New Orleans.