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Insect sperm

By |2017-10-06T09:47:53+02:00April 18th, 2017|Blog|

The importance of insect sperm: The black soldier fly The biodiversity and general importance of insects are not generally appreciated. Very few people realize that insects represent about 95% of the Animal Kingdom (AK). In other words all other animal species such as invertebrates including sponges, oysters, mussels, sea urchins, segmented worms, [...]

Great success of the SCA seminar in Algeria – March 20th

By |2017-10-06T12:05:53+02:00March 20th, 2017|News|

Our distributor in Algeria, W.L.I. ALGERIA, in collaboration with Microptic, organized a SCA® (Sperm Class Analyzer®) CASA System Seminar, on March 18th, in Algiers (Algeria). Around 200 attendants could see the presentations of the lecturers: Dr. Rédha Belala (University of Blida) did the lecture “Computer Assisted Sperm Analysis (CASA): A valuable tool [...]

University of Salento taught a seminar on CASA/SCA – March 17th

By |2017-10-06T12:04:49+02:00March 17th, 2017|News|

The Dept. of Biology of University of Salento (Italy) organized, in collaboration with NIKON, a seminar on CASA/SCA in a master course on infertility, taught by Prof. Giovanni Aloisio (Full Professor, Computer Engineering, Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento). The seminar was held on February 28th and March 1st. The main objective [...]

Penguin sperm

By |2018-01-05T11:35:53+01:00March 16th, 2017|Blog|

Sperm of the endangered African penguin and Rockhopper penguin studied The African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) (Fig. 1) is endemic to southern Africa and is classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List. It is also known as the black-footed or jackass penguin because its bray sounds like that of the donkey. There [...]