Coming back from Oman almost without time to put a foot in Barcelona, I was travelling again, this time to Turkey. My flight arrived at Turkish capital, Ankara, and there I was picked up by our distributors Ali and Mustafa. We went together to Eskisehir where, after Hüseyin joined us, we installed a Toxicology edition [...]
Last June I was in Oman invited by Global Source Trading, our new distributor helping Satheesh to present our SCA system to their clients. It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to visit this country; even temperatures reached 50ºC! People there are very well prepared to live in such hot conditions but for me, [...]
During two days (July 23th – 24th, 2014) I went to the University Hospital of Basel for an installation and training of a complete SCA system. This is the second system they install, one near the other. Andrology laboratory with the two SCA systems The first system was installed in 2011 and it uses [...]
Last 2nd June we have installed a full SCA® system in the Pasteur Institute in Dakar (Senegal). This centre is fully equipped with ultimate technology, although they were performing the semen analysis manually in a subjective way. Having increased the number of samples to analyze in the laboratory, they decided to improve the quality [...]
The first observations concerning low-temperature preservation of spermatozoa date from 1776, when the Italian physiologist Spallanzani noted that spermatozoa cooled in snow became inactive but could be revived on warming, although, successful cryopreservation protocols date only from the 1950s. In 1949, the single most important development came with the discovery by Polge, Smith and Parkes [...]
WHO Manual Analysis may be the Gold Standard for Semen Analysis but SCA CASA is more consistent than Manual analysis During the past year I assisted with a study investigating the relationship between World Health Organization (WHO 5, 2010) manual analysis criteria of semen analysis compared to SCA® CASA analysis which involved three independent centres [...]
Last February, I went to Biomnis for an installation and training of a complete SCA CASA system during three days (February 17th – 19th, 2014). Mr. Alexandre Cauchon, the technical Engineer from our French distributors (Nikon France), was also there to help me. Biomnis is one of the most important analysis laboratories in France and [...]
Last January, one of our technical engineers, Mr Javier Briseño, installed one of our Sperm Analysers to be used in the analysis of several fish species: Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus), Sole (Soleidae), Salmonidae and Sturgeon (Actinopterygii). The installation and analysts training took place in the Central Fisheries Research Institute, Trabzon, Turkey in the Black Sea coast. [...]
Taking the opportunity that our distributor in South Korea, Joong Ang company, represented by their Service Sales Manager, Kevin Oh, sold a complete SCA system to a representative customer in South Korea, Albert Casquero, one of our technical engineers, visited this amazing country. Gangnam neighborhood, Seoul The trip started on Monday 8th of July, [...]
A conventional semen analysis, as it is made in a Reproductive biology clinic or general laboratory, tries to find out the quality of the sample. For that purpose, the microscopic characteristics must be evaluated: the concentration of the spermatozoa in the seminal liquid, their motility, morphology, vitality, and more recently, the presence of DNA fragmentation [...]
