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Exciting News for Our Valued Customers! – December 2nd

By |2024-12-02T13:03:12+01:00December 2nd, 2024|News|

We are thrilled to announce that the Hamilton Thorne Group and Cook Medical Reproductive Health have joined forces! Together we have created a comprehensive provider of high-quality, reliable equipment and consumables for fertility clinics, university research centers, and doctors — all with the goal of increasing access and improving fertility outcomes worldwide. [...]

Round cells detection in spermograms

By |2024-10-17T11:10:51+02:00October 17th, 2024|Blog|

Relevance of round cells detection in spermograms A spermogram consists of analyzing the sperm of a man or an animal to evaluate the fertility and find out any possible anomalies. Round cells are known to be one of the most likely anomalies, encompassing lymphocytes, plasma cells, macrophages, mast cells, and round tumor [...]

Future-Proofing the ART Laboratory

By |2024-08-07T08:16:50+02:00August 6th, 2024|Blog|

The Cairo Consensus on Accreditation as the Basis for Future-Proofing the ART Laboratory Our publication of the Cairo Consensus on accreditation as the basis for future-proofing the ART laboratory [Reproductive Biomedicine Online 2024:1041106; doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2024.104106] is the latest in a series of international consensus reports aimed at encouraging best practices in the ART [...]

Hamilton Thorne announces agreement to be acquired by Astorg – July 22nd

By |2024-07-22T16:57:22+02:00July 22nd, 2024|News|

Our parent company, Hamilton Thorne, has announced an agreement to be acquired by Astorg. Astorg also announced an agreement to acquire Cook Medical’s ART portfolio, and intends to combine Hamilton Thorne and Cook ART, creating a comprehensive provider of high-quality, innovative, and reliable equipment and consumables for fertility clinics and doctors. Learn [...]

New version SCA 6.7 – June 7th

By |2024-06-10T15:38:15+02:00June 7th, 2024|News|

Next month, during ESHRE annual meeting, our company will present the new software version of the Sperm Class Analyzer (SCA) 6.7, available for all editions (human, animal, research and toxicology) and SCA SCOPE. This update includes a new user interface, a home page with information about the latest news in the field [...]

External Quality Control 2024 – April 17th

By |2024-04-17T17:13:21+02:00April 17th, 2024|News|

The new edition of the External Quality Control (EQC) for SCA and SCA SCOPE is available for those customers under maintenance. Since semen analysis is extraordinarily complex, quality controls are essential to detect and correct systematic errors leading to a high variability of the results. Standardise your analyses with the EQC! See [...]

Spermatology laboratories

By |2024-07-22T10:59:42+02:00February 20th, 2024|Blog|

The Rise of men or equity in sex-linked health awareness? Since young men do not usually consult a urologist, when it comes to fertility, it is always up to the woman to consult her gynecologist. In the absence of his urologist, it is her gynecologist to ask for a semen analysis. We all [...]

Male Reproductive Health

By |2023-11-29T15:18:37+01:00November 29th, 2023|Blog|

The evolution of male reproductive health In recent years, a sense of urgency regarding male reproductive health has been escalating worldwide and for many reasons. Perhaps the most conspicuous reason is the reported global decline in sperm counts being broadcast by popular media channels to the lay community. Coffee table books have [...]