Is CASA really required? Views from the past, the present and the future The big questions are: Does CASA measure sperm parameters such as motility, morphology, vitality etc. quantitatively, accurately and to what extent does it enhance clinical spermatology for human and animals and wildlife? Does it provide answers not only on [...]
Microptic, a leading company in the field of semen analysis, brings the well-accepted SCA SCOPE, an automated lab device for human semen assessment. Microptic will be exhibiting (booth Z1.D44) at MEDLAB Middle East 2020, one of the largest laboratory exhibition & congress in the world, from 3 to 6 of February, in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The 32nd Annual Meeting of European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in Helsinki, Finland, finished and the participation of Microptic was successful. With a booth in exhibition hall, our company presented the new 6.2 version of Sperm Class Analyzer® CASA System that includes some new features like the new automatic analysis of vitality [...]
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 [...]
