Microptic and its collaborators, helping patients to achieve their dreams
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 [...]
Sperm functionality
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 [...]
New role players in Africa using CASA for sperm quality assessment
Major new role players in the clinical setting using CASA technology for sperm quality assessment in Africa In most of Southern Africa and in Scandinavia there has long been a history of resistance to the use of [...]
Marriage of WHO5 and sperm functionality review and debate
Marriage of WHO5 and sperm functionality review and debate Since the appearance of the semen analysis manual of the World Health Organization in 2010 (WHO5), there has been many critical debates about its value and use. In [...]
Agricultural Research Council (ARC)
Three SCA upgrades and training to Germplasm, Conservation and Reproductive Biotechnologies (GCRB) Laboratory, Agricultural Research Council (ARC), Irene, Pretoria Figure 1: The ARC-GCRB personnel. The ARC-GCRB laboratories based in Pretoria-Irene, is well known for its [...]
Helping families grow and preserving species
Helping families grow and preserving species in danger of extinction Whenever friends ask me what I do for a living and I answer: “analyze sperm”, their first reaction is amusing. Some of them just smirk a little [...]