Sea urchin sperm: Appearance, collection and measurement of sperm motility - the ideal CASA solution! Sea urchins belong to the phylum Echinodermata meaning “spiny skinned”. There are five classes of Echinodermata and three of these are indicated below in Fig. 1 (A to C): The sea stars, the sea urchins and the [...]
Microptic organizes a new free webinar on October 15th: The use of Computer Aided Sperm Analysis (CASA) in Research. What is the essential equipment for Research? What is better: raw semen or washed sperm? How should quantitative data be used? What are the most important analyses in Research environment? Prof Gerhard van [...]
How to improve your domestic stock through intelligent solutions! The importance and size of the global domestic animal market is enormous and only the beef market translates to USD 332.9 billion in 2020 with a revenue forecast of about USD 383.5 billion by 2027. The beef market is dominant in USA and [...]
Microptic provides datasheets of various species for SCA® (sperm analysis) users. The aim of these documents is to inform users about the most appropriate modules, disposables, and hardware requirements to analyze each species. Each datasheet includes reference parameters for first time assessment. Go to "Species datasheets" section
A major breakthrough: Fully automated Computer Aided Sperm Motility Analysis of African bee sperm! We alluded in an earlier blog to the importance of bees as keystone species globally and provided some background on the reproduction of the African bee and our research on bee sperm. Sperm motility in all animals including [...]
Microptic organizes a new free webinar on May 14th: Main features & new improvements in Microptic's CASA systems. Mr Eduard Sànchez, Microptic’s CEO, will show attendants the main features and the new improvements in Microptic's CASA systems. He will be answering questions as what's new in the latest versions? how to work [...]
At Microptic, we asked some of our clients about their research studies they have performed using our SCA system. In this blog, Dr Hatem Bahri (from Tunisia) introduces one of his most important research, presented at the last congress of the Tunisian Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics and second prize-winner: Sperm characteristics [...]
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 [...]
Microptic held successfully a training course on semen analysis in Barcelona. The attendees, from several IVF centres, hospitals and clinics, were able to see and try the new device SCA SCOPE and discover the latest news about SCA. The course, theoretical and practical, focused on basic semen assessment and advanced computer aided [...]
Prof Gerhard van der Horst (PhD, PhD), Microptic Senior Consultant based in South Africa, went, in October, on a three weeks trip to Spain, The UK, The Netherlands and Poland. First stop: Barcelona For two days, Prof van der Horst stayed at Microptic’ s head office to deal with some important matters [...]
