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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 |2024-02-20T17:09:18+01:00February 20th, 2024|Blog|

The raise of MEN or equity in sex-linked health awareness? Since young men do not use to consult a urologist, when it comes to fertility, it is always the woman to consult her gynaecologist. In the absence of his urologist, it is her gynaecologist 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 [...]

First animals to have sperm

By |2023-10-26T12:26:07+02:00October 26th, 2023|Blog|

Which were the first animals to have sperm? Have basic sperm components changed much over the course of evolution? So, where do sperm come from an evolutionary perspective? Fig. 1: A figurative display of sperm. Let is start from the very beginning. In the simplest animals such as Protozoa (mainly [...]