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Hyperactivation of sperm

By |2018-01-04T15:58:50+01:00March 2nd, 2016|Blog|

Hyperactivation of sperm:  A very important sperm functional test. Semen quality is traditionally measured by determining sperm concentration, sperm motility,vitality normal sperm morphology and a whole range of other parameters. While these aspects are useful in terms of a record of baseline data it does not necessarily inform us about the functionality of the sperm. [...]

GIERAF Congress

By |2018-01-04T16:00:34+01:00February 7th, 2016|Past events|

6th International Congress of the Inter-African Group for Study, Research and Application on Fertility 7-10 February 2017 Abidjan, Ivory Coast www.congresgierafabidjan2017.com Event participated by MICROPTIC

SCA® goes to Aarhus, Denmark!

By |2018-01-04T16:02:56+01:00February 1st, 2016|News|

SCA® at Cryos International We installed the SCA® at Cryos International (www.cryosinternational.com), the largest sperm bank in the world. As they need to analyse a lot of samples every day, we developed for them a customized way to perform the analysis very fast. The technician just need to enter the donor-sample, press enter and analyse [...]

Sperm competition

By |2018-01-04T16:10:36+01:00January 7th, 2016|Blog|

There are lots of sperm competition among wildlife species. Is there sperm competition in humans?.......and is human sperm so bad after all? Parker (1970) can be considered the modern father of sperm competition, as he defined this method of sexual selection as the competition between sperm of two or more males to fertilize the oocytes [...]

SWES Conference

By |2018-01-04T16:15:32+01:00January 6th, 2016|Past events|

Southwest Embryology Summit 6-7 January 2017 Phoenix, Arizona https://theswes.org/ Event participated by our distributor: FERTILITY TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES