SCA® (Sperm Class Analyzer®) CASA System Seminar
SCA CASA System Seminar 18 March 2017 Algiers, Algeria See brochure Event organized by W.L.I. ALGERIA and participated by MICROPTIC
Hyperactivation of sperm
Hyperactivation of sperm: A very important sperm functional test. Semen quality is traditionally measured by determining sperm concentration, sperm motility,vitality normal sperm morphology and a whole range of other parameters. While these aspects are useful in terms of a record of baseline data it does not necessarily inform us about the functionality of the sperm. [...]
GIERAF Congress
6th International Congress of the Inter-African Group for Study, Research and Application on Fertility 7-10 February 2017 Abidjan, Ivory Coast www.congresgierafabidjan2017.com Event participated by MICROPTIC
SCA® goes to Aarhus, Denmark!
SCA® at Cryos International We installed the SCA® at Cryos International (www.cryosinternational.com), the largest sperm bank in the world. As they need to analyse a lot of samples every day, we developed for them a customized way to perform the analysis very fast. The technician just need to enter the donor-sample, press enter and analyse [...]
Sperm competition
There are lots of sperm competition among wildlife species. Is there sperm competition in humans?.......and is human sperm so bad after all? Parker (1970) can be considered the modern father of sperm competition, as he defined this method of sexual selection as the competition between sperm of two or more males to fertilize the oocytes [...]
SWES Conference
Southwest Embryology Summit 6-7 January 2017 Phoenix, Arizona https://theswes.org/ Event participated by our distributor: FERTILITY TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
Fertility Conference
10th Conference of the UK Fertility Societies Association of Clinical Embryologists, British Fertility Society and Society for Reproduction & Fertility 5-7 January 2017 Edinburgh, United Kingdom http://fertilityconference.org/ Event participated by our distributor: MICROM UK LTD
SCA® a tool for research and education
After the clinics and research labs, the SCA is now finding it’s way into the classrooms! The Problem-based Learning (PBL) pedagogical model of Aalborg University has become both nationally and internationally recognized by universities, researchers and students as an advanced and efficient learning model. In this model, the students need to put what they learn [...]
LED illumination for sperm analysis
Fluorescence vitality assessment can be also affordable We are happy to share this article from PRIOR about their LED illumination, a cost-effective choice for the automatic assessment of sperm vitality under fluorescence with SCA®. Spermatozoa are analysed accurately and fast, providing a clear and automatic discrimination between living and dead cells. Download article [...]
Most common pitfalls in human semen analysis
What are the most common pitfalls in human semen analysis? There are many basic problems/pitfalls in basic semen analyses. Even in many ESHRE accredited laboratories that I visited during the last five years one or more of these pitfalls were evident: 1. Maintaining the temperature of sample at [...]