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Entrevista a los editores de “Salud reproductiva masculina”

By |2023-04-25T17:52:36+02:00April 25th, 2023|Blog|

Entrevista al Biólogo Gerardo Cerezo Parra, a la Dra. Mónica Vazquez-Levin y a la Dra. Rocío Núñez Calonge En esta ocasión les presentamos un blog con un formato diferente: realizamos una entrevista al Biólogo Gerardo Cerezo Parra (México), a la Dra Mónica Vazquez-Levin (Argentina) y a la Dra Rocío Núñez Calonge (España), [...]

Webinar: How to validate your CASA? – May 11th

By |2023-04-21T09:30:40+02:00April 20th, 2023|News|

Microptic organizes a new free webinar on May 11th: How to validate your CASA? (Computer-Aided Sperm Analysis). The validation of Computer-Aided Sperm Analysers (CASA) is essential for laboratories to set up systems on their routine. In this webinar our biologists will provide advise to all new users on how to conduct a [...]

The decline in human sperm concentration!?

By |2023-02-20T15:15:43+01:00February 20th, 2023|Blog|

A further major 2022 meta-analysis on declining sperm concentration globally was published followed by press sensation and paranoia – men doomsday! What are the perspectives? The author previously wrote a blog based on an International conference presentation (2018) which was subsequently published by Prof Levine from Israel showing that there is a [...]

Participation in an ASEBIR course – December 19th

By |2022-12-19T16:39:38+01:00December 19th, 2022|News|

On December 15th, Microptic participated in the course “Improving results: contributors in the Assisted Human Reproduction laboratory”, organized by ASEBIR interest groups, by doing a practical session on CASA systems for semen analysis, as a reference company in this field. In this session, held at the General Hospital of Valencia (Spain), assisted [...]

Counting sperm

By |2022-12-19T11:27:37+01:00December 19th, 2022|Blog|

Keep Calm and Carry on counting sperm For the past 8 years I have been teaching MSc students how to count sperm. However, a few years ago I read an interview published as part of ESHREs In Profile series where Jackson Kirkman-Brown suggests that a sperm count is a relatively poor index [...]