**Author details**

Giuseppe Coppola1 \*, Maria Antonietta Ferrara<sup>1</sup> , Giuseppe Di Caprio<sup>2</sup> , Gianfranco Coppola<sup>3</sup> and Brian Dale3

\*Address all correspondence to: giuseppe.coppola@cnr.it

1 Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, National Research Council, Naples, Italy

2 Cell Biology Department at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

3 Centre of Assisted Fertilization (CFA-Italy), Naples, Italy
