Sperm Class Analyzer ensures standardization and improves documentation in the world’s largest sperm bank Cryos The market for human sperm has rapidly increased during the last decade – especially due to the acceptance of solo motherhood and homosexual couples with the desire to become parents. As one of the market leaders, Cryos [...]
Did you know that genetic suppliers in the pig business are responsible for a large part of the result? An enormous important link at the start of the chain, together with the AI station. As a pig farmer, it is therefore interesting to invest in this in order to be able to [...]
Barcelona, nuestra ciudad, ha acogido la 34ª Reunión Anual de la European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) en la que Microptic participó con un innovador estand. En esta especial edición nuestra compañía presentó el nuevo SCA SCOPE, un avanzado equipo de laboratorio para la evaluación de esperma que tiene integrado [...]
Sperm analysis of West Indian manatee by University of Florida Aquatic Animal Health Program team using SCA® CASA System Fig. 1: West Indian manatee from Florida. Modified from National Geographic. The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus spp.) is a large herbivorous mammalian species (average length 3 meter and weight 500 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
