fertility

Breaking taboo!

By |2023-01-04T12:57:36+01:0023 Ago 2022|Blog|

Male infertility: breaking taboo! MAN, since the dawn of time, he has been characterized by plenty of adjectives: Strong, Invincible, Combative, Courageous, Valiant, Determined, Daring, Intrepid... the list is long! MAN, why is it so complicated for this superhero to talk about male infertility? A quite challenging question that may raise several [...]

Technology for semen analysis

By |2022-07-14T15:22:36+02:0014 Jul 2022|Blog|

Technological and engineering updates to take care of male fertility It should come as no surprise that technology has made significant enhancements. Daily life is filled with incredible evidence of how far our lives have come from what we see, read, hear and living within every moment. We can enrich the quality [...]

Seminograma

By |2022-04-21T12:07:22+02:0021 Abr 2022|Blog|

¿Qué es un seminograma y para qué sirve? El seminograma es una prueba fundamental para determinar el grado de fertilidad masculina. Suele realizarse en el marco de un tratamiento de reproducción asistida, cuando los miembros de la pareja detectan dificultades para conseguir un embarazo. Asimismo, sirve para determinar si el hombre sufre [...]

Webinar: MetaClass, Cariotipador y FISH para parejas infértiles – 11 de junio

By |2020-05-29T12:53:47+02:0029 May 2020|News|

Microptic organiza un nuevo webinar gratuito para el día 11 de junio: MetaClass, Cariotipador y FISH para parejas infértiles. ¿Es posible asociar algunas anomalías genéticas y cromosómicas a infertilidad y síndromes específicos? Eduard Sànchez, CEO de Microptic, mostrará a los asistentes este sistema modular utilizado en estudios citogenéticos humanos de cromosomas. Webinar [...]

Male infertility: what solutions are there?

By |2020-03-17T11:36:44+01:0017 Mar 2020|Blog|

Male infertility: what solutions are there? They may not have the biological clock pressure, but they are also affected, in the same way, by infertility problems. Moreover, for most of them is the same as for us: they find out they have problems when they try to be parents, but they can’t. [...]

Infertility

By |2020-02-18T11:48:16+01:0018 Feb 2020|Blog|

Is infertility a disease or a condition or a symptom? Is infertility a disease or a condition or a symptom? This aspect is much debated and very diverse opinions exist on this topic. But let us first review some formal considerations: The World Health Organization defines infertility to be “a disease of [...]

Epigenetics and lifestyle

By |2019-10-22T16:02:25+02:0022 Oct 2019|Blog|

Epigenetics and lifestyle: new perspectives for future diagnostics Have you ever wondered why some people are more prone than others to suffer from obesity, diabetes or cancer? The most probable answer is thinking that these diseases are related to genes that parents transmitted to their progeny, which at the same time, were [...]

Declining sperm count

By |2018-10-18T16:49:08+02:0018 Oct 2018|Blog|

Human zero sperm count in the next generation: Really? What are the facts? The aspect of declining sperm count has been debated over many decades and is very controversial. Recently Dr Haqgai Levine presented a paper at the 13th International Symposium on Spermatology in Stockholm that sperm numbers are declining and represent [...]

Questioning abstinence periods

By |2018-01-18T17:04:50+01:0018 Ene 2018|Blog|

Better sperm motility and kinematics after short vs. long ejaculatory abstinence It has long been observed that semen volume, sperm concentration and total sperm counts increase with increasing duration of abstinence; However, recent studies suggest that there is a paradoxical improvement of sperm motility and kinematic parameters with shorter abstinence periods. [...]