Dans l’exploration du couple infertile, le spermogramme et spermocytogramme sont toujours les examens de 1ère intention. La technique de référence reste la technique manuelle et la plupart des laboratoires d’analyse médicale peuvent réaliser ces examens, même si souvent les prescripteurs préfèrent qu’ils soient réalisés dans un laboratoire expérimenté en raison des variations [...]
Human zero sperm count in the next generation: Really? What are the facts? The aspect of declining sperm count has been debated over many decades and is very controversial. Recently Dr Haqgai Levine presented a paper at the 13th International Symposium on Spermatology in Stockholm that sperm numbers are declining and represent [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Retour d’expérience et validation de la méthode d’analyse En 2017 le spermogramme reste un examen incontournable du bilan d’infertilité du couple. Toutefois sa technique de mise en œuvre a peu évolué depuis 30 ans, elle s’appuie sur une analyse manuelle. Le laboratoire Eurofins Biomnis a souhaité s’engager dans une démarche d’automatisation de [...]
El 32º Congreso Anual de la European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) en Helsinki, Finlandia, finalizó y la participación de Microptic fue un éxito. Con un estand en la zona de exposición, nuestra compañía presentó la nueva versión 6.2 del sistema CASA Sperm Class Analyzer® que incluye novedades como el nuevo análisis automático [...]
Microptic, en colaboración con Nikon Francia, estuvo presente en las zonas de exhibición de la 10ª reunión bienal de la Association for Applied Animal Andrology (AAAA) y el 18º Congreso Internacional de Reproducción Animal (ICAR), del 24 al 30 de junio en Tours, Francia. En estas ediciones los asistentes pudieron ver la versión 6.1 del [...]
IVF including ICSI needs CASA sperm functionality more than ever before! This blog comes at an important time in view of the upcoming ESHRE conference in Finland that focuses among many other aspects on infertility, sperm and interventions to overcome this through different IVF strategies. For a very long time and currently Computer Aided Sperm [...]
Microptic ha desarrollado el análisis automático y el kit de tinción para dos test funcionales de esperma, la vitalidad en campo claro y la reacción del acrosoma bajo fluorescencia. En el 32º Congreso Anual de la European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) en Helsinki, Finlandia, 3-6 de julio, Microptic presentará la última versión [...]
