Recently Microptic has initiated a collaboration with Embryotools that has allowed to introduce an andrology course that will also be carried out, in part, in the facilities of this collaborating center: Sperm Analysis Preparation and Cryopreservation: Hands on and troubleshooting (dates upon request). Embryotools laboratory, in Barcelona. About Embryotools With [...]
Tricks for optimizing the analysis of sperms with the SCA 1. The presence of bubbles inside the counting chamber may alter the results obtained by your SCA. This occurs when: a) Non-optimal counting chambers are used for automatic analysis. b) The counting chamber is not filled in correctly. - Micropipettes [...]
Not of Mice and Men but Rat sperm morphology quantified In a previous Microptic blog in 2015, we reported on the SCA TOX system of Microptic and its uses in reproductive toxicology testing. It was further indicated that tailor made modules exist for sperm motility, vitality, fragmentation and that in principle it [...]
Microptic invests in cutting edge technologies of the computer vision field in order to develop new algorithms of automatic diagnosis. We are involved now in one projects to detect human leukocytes automatically. This technology is based on deep learning, which is a methodology that trains automatic algorithms that learn by themselves to [...]
The version 6.3 of Sperm Class Analyzer CASA System is available for all editions and includes some new features as rapidity or a customer experience improvement program. Users should contact us for its installation. Remember to be up to date with the last version hiring the maintenance service. New version request [...]
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 that SCA is able to unify processes in semen analysis whatever the country and its [...]
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 [...]
Our company has initiated a collaboration with ExSeed Health to launch a device that allows, with Microptic technology, for easy sperm testing at home in just a few seconds. This state-of-the-art smartphone compatible device works with SCA software and will help give couples all over the world the ability to improve their [...]
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 [...]
