The advantages of a multidisciplinary team - my personal experience As the scientist I am, I have always considered myself as a curious person with the need to question my environment and learn more about the unknown. Going a little bit deeper into my personal experience, I spent 15 years in the [...]
Short blog about installation and training of SCA 6.5 at Zululand University, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa The Sperm Class Analyzer (SCA), Microptic's CASA System for semen analysis, was re-installed in the Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Zululand University, near Richard Bay, headed by Prof Khoboso Lehloenya. Gerhard van der Horst performed [...]
A new CASA system for East Africa, Tanzania, for the National Artificial Insemination Centre: A unique situation! Fig. 1: Entrance to NAIC with administrative quarters and laboratories. In Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa there is a great need to improve the quality of livestock in general and particulalrly cattle such [...]
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 Computer Aided Sperm Analysis (CASA) in the clinical/IVF laboratory setting. This is partly understandable since [...]
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 reproductive biology research on indigenous South African domestic animals. There are dozens of unique indigenous [...]
Notre société célèbre ses 1 500 systèmes Sperm Class Analyzer® installés à travers le monde. Microptic a commencé son activité en Espagne, jusqu'en 2001 où le Département d’Exportation a été créé, permettant à l'entreprise de s'étendre. Depuis, la société a connu une croissance rapide. Le système SCA® CASA est un système de mesure automatique, modulaire, [...]
Le journal "Diario del Fin del Mundo" a publié cet article sur l'installation de deux nouveaux systèmes SCA dans les hôpitaux argentins (article en espagnol).
Thanks to our new distributor in this country, the company LabServis, this February I could visit Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. Baku is an amazing city: it merges influences from Asian and European cultures. The city center looks a little bit like Dubai (big modern buildings, wide avenues and parks), but what I liked [...]
Last November I had the opportunity to visit Colombia for the first time. It was a very busy trip but very well organized and supported by our distributor ANICAM Enterprises. The first day I visited ANICAM’s offices and spent some time exchanging knowledge about our companies and products. I had also the opportunity to experience [...]
Last August's week I visited Ireland for the first time. It was in University of Limerick, the European City of Culture in 2014. I had the opportunity to enjoy life in an amazing University campus, I suggest it to all students that have the opportunity to go there. I installed there a complete SCA® veterinary [...]
