25th Conference of the FFER (French Federation of Study of Reproduction)
FFER Conference 23-25 September 2020 Clermont-Ferrand, France ffer-clermont2020.com Event participated by MICROPTIC (Booth No 28)
Elephant sperm
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 [...]
Collaboration with Vall d’Hebron University Hospital – July 17th
Vall d’Hebron University Hospital team Microptic and Vall d’Hebron University Hospital have recently completed a comparative study between manual and automatic analysis of semen samples to show the advantages of using CASA systems in sperm assessment, specifically in using new device SCA SCOPE. To do so, our engineers installed a [...]
Frog sperm
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 - [...]
36th Annual Meeting of European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
ESHRE virtual annual meeting 5-8 July 2020 www.eshre.eu/ESHRE2020 Event participated by MICROPTIC and Prof Gerhard Van der Horst as speaker. See here our booth (you should be registered).
One more year, ESHRE Annual Meeting – June 27th
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
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 [...]
Le spermogramme automatisé au laboratoire, enfin !
Dans l’exploration du couple infertile, le spermogramme et spermocytogramme sont toujours les examens de 1ère intention. La technique de référence reste la technique manuelle et la plupart des laboratoires d’analyse médicale peuvent réaliser ces examens, même si souvent les prescripteurs préfèrent qu’ils soient réalisés dans un laboratoire expérimenté en raison des variations [...]
New ventures in sperm motility
New ventures in our understanding of sperm functionality In 2016 I wrote a blog on standardization of semen analysis in humans but with the emphasis on reviewing sperm motility analysis since the 1600’s until 2016. I showed the importance of standardization of quantitative semen analyses and the power of CASA in assisting [...]
New disposables – April 1st
Take a look at our disposables list with new updates. Discover the new products: Counting chambers SCA, Morphology slides SCA, Vitality slides SCA and Leukocytes slides SCA. All new ones are compatible with SCA SCOPE. Counting chambers SCA Disposable counting chambers to analyse motility, concentration and pH of semen Morphology slides SCA [...]