Three participants at XIII International Symposium on Spermatology explain to us their thoughts on the event: Prof Gerhard van der Horst, Prof Stefan du Plessis and Dr Liana Maree. Representing your country and institution at any international conference is always a great honour, but with that also comes a [...]
No hablamos de conejos de pascua ni liebres, sino de reproducción de conejos y esperma Hay un nuevo enfoque sobre conejos en términos de su tasa de reproducción prolífica, por la gran demanda de producción de carne de conejo a nivel mundial, pero también sobre cuestiones éticas en términos de experimentación [...]
Not Easter bunnies or hares, but rabbit reproduction and sperm Fig. 1: Captive bred rabbits There is a new focus on rabbits in terms of their so called prolific breeding rate, huge demand for rabbit meat production globally, but also ethical issues in terms of animal experimentation in medical research. [...]
Dos investigadores de la Universidad de Florida están aprovechando una oportunidad única para investigar la biología de los espermatozoides de los manatíes Antillanos en Florida y Puerto Rico. West Indian manatee from Florida. Modified from National Geographic. El manatí Antillano (Trichechus manatus spp.) es una gran especie de mamífero herbívoro [...]
Tricks for optimizing the analysis of sperms with the SCA 1. The presence of bubbles inside the counting chamber may alter the results obtained by your SCA. This occurs when: a) Non-optimal counting chambers are used for automatic analysis. b) The counting chamber is not filled in correctly. - Micropipettes [...]
Not of Mice and Men but Rat sperm morphology quantified In a previous Microptic blog in 2015, we reported on the SCA TOX system of Microptic and its uses in reproductive toxicology testing. It was further indicated that tailor made modules exist for sperm motility, vitality, fragmentation and that in principle it [...]
Microptic está invirtiendo en tecnologías de vanguardia en el campo de la visión artificial para desarrollar nuevos algoritmos de diagnóstico automático. Estamos involucrados ahora en un proyecto para detectar leucocitos humanos de forma automática. Esta tecnología se basa en el concepto de “Deep learning”, que es una metodología que entrena algoritmos automáticos [...]
La versión 6.3 del sistema CASA Sperm Class Analyzer está disponible para todas las ediciones e incluye algunas nuevas características como la rapidez o un programa de mejora de la experiencia del cliente. Los usuarios deben contactar con nosotros para su instalación. Recuerden estar al día con la última versión contratando el [...]
We want to finalize the year giving some small reflections regarding infertility and showing three videos, made by SCA users from different continents in order to reassure the patients with the male infertility analysis. You will see that SCA is able to unify processes in semen analysis whatever the country and its [...]
Sperm functionality: Importance in assessing sperm quality, fertilization success and live birth outcome The WHO5 manual (2010) for semen analysis in 2010 sparked a great deal of debate. Perhaps the most important aspects emerging from the debate was that specific “single value” cut-off points are not useful to distinguish between “good and [...]
