SCA® Installation in Eskisehir University
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. [...]
SCA® Workshop in Oman
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! [...]
SCA® Installation in Univ. Hosp. of Basel (Switzerland)
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 [...]
Installation in Institute Pasteur (Dakar – Senegal)
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 [...]
Sperm Cryopreservation: Animal diluents and automatic analysis
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 [...]
SCA® CASA, more consistent than manual analysis
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 [...]