semen analysis

Participación en un curso de ASEBIR – 19 de diciembre

By |2022-12-19T16:28:02+01:0019 Dic 2022|News|

El pasado 15 de diciembre, Microptic participó en el curso “Mejorando resultados: coadyuvantes en el laboratorio de Reproducción Humana Asistida”, organizado por los grupos de interés de ASEBIR, impartiendo una sesión práctica sobre los sistemas CASA para análisis de semen, como empresa de referencia en este campo. En esta sesión, celebrada en [...]

Counting sperm

By |2022-12-19T11:18:00+01:0019 Dic 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 [...]

OMS 6 en italiano y coreano – 24 de octubre

By |2022-10-24T17:04:47+02:0024 Oct 2022|News|

Manual de laboratorio de la OMS para el examen y procesamiento de semen humano, ahora en italiano y coreano. La OMS ha publicado la sexta edición de su Manual de Laboratorio para el Examen y Procesamiento de Semen Humano en los idiomas italiano y coreano. Este documento proporciona procedimientos y recomendaciones actualizadas, [...]

Sperm competition or lack of sperm competition

By |2022-10-18T09:35:37+02:0018 Oct 2022|Blog|

The evolutionary consequences of sperm competition or the lack of sperm competition Fig. 1: Scanning EM: Gerbil sperm. What is sperm competition? It is the competitive process between spermatozoa of two or more different males to fertilize the same egg(s) during sexual reproduction. This form of competitive reproduction is by far [...]

Sperm Today!

By |2022-09-12T13:06:02+02:0012 Sep 2022|Blog|

Atelier "Sperm Today!", Togo C’est avec un immense plaisir que la Clinique BIASA à Lomé au Togo a pu accueillir au sein de son établissement l’atelier Sperm Today! les 20 et 21 juin 2022. Pendant ces 2 journées, les professionnels de la santé de la biologie de la reproduction d’Afrique de l’Ouest ont pu [...]

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 [...]

Sesión “Sperm Today!” en Togo – 28 de junio

By |2022-06-28T15:49:38+02:0028 Jun 2022|News|

La semana pasada la Clínica BIASA organizó un taller en Togo (20-21 de junio de 2022) con la colaboración de MICROPTIC. Éste consistía en una sesión teórica y práctica, bajo el nombre de “Sperm Today!”, con las intervenciones de nuestras compañeras Elsa Delacroix (Jefa de Exportación) y Glòria Martínez (Bióloga). Los temas [...]

Other factors in male fertility

By |2022-06-17T12:53:28+02:0017 Jun 2022|Blog|

Are factors apart from sperm functional parameters important in assessing potential male fertility? In previous blogs I alluded to the many ways used to assess sperm quality. The gold standard for human semen analysis is the World Health Organization Manual. The most recent edition is referred to as WHO 6 (2021). I [...]

Environmental contaminants

By |2022-05-17T12:32:53+02:0017 May 2022|Blog|

Are emerging environmental contaminants a threat to male fertility? Unexplained male infertility is evident in up to 25% of male factor infertility cases and exposure to environmental contaminants could be one of many culprits in the global decline in male fertility. Since many of these compounds end up in water bodies, it [...]