{"id":288888,"date":"2026-02-17T21:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/288888\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:53:18","slug":"time100-health-zev-williams-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/288888\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME100 Health: Zev Williams | TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Male infertility accounts for about half of all infertility issues among couples. Dr. Zev Williams found a way to address one of the most common causes using AI. In men with azoospermia, doctors generally can\u2019t detect any sperm in the semen. Williams knew that didn\u2019t mean that the sperm were absent, just harder to find. He and his team developed an AI-based system, Sperm Track and Recovery, or STAR, that detects and isolates sperm in semen samples with impressive results; in one sample in which technicians could find no sperm after analyzing it for two days under a microscope, STAR found 44 in an hour. The process led to the first successful pregnancy in a couple that had been trying unsuccessfully to start a family for nearly two decades. In November, they welcomed a healthy baby girl. \u201cThe dream is to develop technologies so that those who are told, \u2018You have no chance of being able to have a child,\u2019 can now go on to have healthy children,\u201d says Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Male infertility accounts for about half of all infertility issues among couples. Dr. Zev Williams found a way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[54805,13687,134,527,10005,4974,111,139,69,54807,16498,156689],"class_list":{"0":"post-288888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-franchise","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-list","13":"tag-magazine","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-special-project","18":"tag-sponsorshipblock","19":"tag-time100-health-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}