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Epigenetics and lifestyle

By |2019-10-22T16:00:59+02:00October 22nd, 2019|Blog|

Epigenetics and lifestyle: new perspectives for future diagnostics Have you ever wondered why some people are more prone than others to suffer from obesity, diabetes or cancer? The most probable answer is thinking that these diseases are related to genes that parents transmitted to their progeny, which at the same time, were [...]

Elephant sperm

By |2019-09-17T12:25:46+02:00September 17th, 2019|Blog|

First comprehensive CASA study of Free ranging African elephant sperm in the wild: What does it take? It is seldom realized what it really takes to perform such a formidable research task in the total wilderness. It is not as if there are ten elephants behind bars waiting for semen collection in [...]

Frog sperm

By |2019-07-17T09:59:33+02:00July 17th, 2019|Blog|

Frogs are both sentinel and keystone species and globally threatened: The need to study their sperm biology! Fig. 1: Amazon tree frog during amplexus. (https://live.staticflickr.com/2042/2432835781_af64b46f2f_b.jpg) Everyone knows what a frog is but where do these fascinating animals fit in the Animal Kingdom? They are amphibians (can live on land - [...]

One more year, ESHRE Annual Meeting – June 27th

By |2019-06-27T17:27:38+02:00June 27th, 2019|News|

The 35th Annual Meeting of European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) was held in Vienna, Austria. Our company exhibited a beautiful booth with a big sperm illuminated and presented the main features of the new SCA SCOPE and the Sperm Class Analyzer (SCA) CASA System, as well as the software [...]

PhD students from Cape Town

By |2019-06-19T16:46:29+02:00June 19th, 2019|Blog|

Five PhD students of the Comparative Spermatology Group in Cape Town all use the SCA CASA system with great effect! Cape Town must have among the most active SCA CASA users in the world in a radius of 25 km. Approximately 30 scientists, students and embryologists from the University of the Western [...]