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 [...]
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 [...]
¿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 [...]
How to improve sperm quality? Sperm quality can be affected by several factors, such as the environment, diseases, lifestyle, age, etc. Those related to men’s lifestyle are the easiest to modify when trying to improve sperm quality in terms of concentration, motility, fragmentation and even epigenetics, as described previously in this blog [...]
Microptic organizes a new free webinar on June 11st: MetaClass, Karyotyping and FISH for infertile couples. Is it possible to associate some genetic and chromosomal abnormalities to infertility and specific syndromes? Mr Eduard Sànchez, Microptic’s CEO, will show attendants this modular system used in human cytogenetic studies of chromosomes. FREE webinar Thursday [...]
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. [...]
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: 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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
