Local sperm sex separation technology was introduced at TEKNOFEST

Aviation, Space and Technology Festival (TEKNOFEST), of which Anadolu Agency (AA) is the "Global Communication Partner" and carried out by the Ministry of Industry and Technology and the T3 Foundation, continues at Şanlıurfa GAP Airport.

The Sortiva team, supported by TÜME Foundation, is working on technology to separate semen according to gender.

The team aims to contribute to the herd planning of businesses in line with their production goals with the domestic technology they aim to develop.

Planning is made according to the needs of the businesses

Sevim Deniz Yaşar, a biomedical engineer in the Sortiva team who introduced their work in the festival area, told the AA reporter that they are working as a team on the production of gendered semen.

Stating that sexed semen can contribute to more planned herd management in livestock enterprises, Yaşar said that it is aimed to use it to increase the number of female calves in milk production enterprises and to obtain male calves with high meat yield in meat production enterprises.

Yaşar said, "We separate the sperm according to their gender by going through various processes in the laboratory environment. Then, we prepare the sperm that can be used to obtain male or female offspring, depending on the need. Then, the sperm are packaged and sent to the field to be used by veterinarians." he said.

Explaining that this technology is used in 4-5 countries abroad, Yaşar noted that they aim for Türkiye to develop domestic technology in this field.