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 a recent review by Van der Horst and Du Plessis (2017) most of these aspects [...]
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 bit while others laugh loudly. However, when I go into detail about what we do [...]
Cette année Microptic a commencé une collaboration avec Embryotools, afin de mener à bien des analyses de sperme et proposer des formations du système CASA dans leur laboratoire. Le système SCA® CASA est opérationnel dans ce laboratoire renouvelé où pour l’instant se font analyses de motilité. Grace à cette coopération, les participants [...]
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 [...]
