Coming back from Oman almost without time to put a foot in Barcelona, I was travelling again, this time to Turkey. My flight arrived at Turkish capital, Ankara, and there I was picked up by our distributors Ali and Mustafa. We went together to Eskisehir where, after Hüseyin joined us, we installed a Toxicology edition [...]
Last June I was in Oman invited by Global Source Trading, our new distributor helping Satheesh to present our SCA system to their clients. It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to visit this country; even temperatures reached 50ºC! People there are very well prepared to live in such hot conditions but for me, [...]
During two days (July 23th – 24th, 2014) I went to the University Hospital of Basel for an installation and training of a complete SCA system. This is the second system they install, one near the other. Andrology laboratory with the two SCA systems The first system was installed in 2011 and it uses [...]
On September 5th, National Centre for Research, Education and Monitoring of Fertility Problems organizes semen analysis workshop. The aim of the workshop is to provide participants with practical knowledge based on international standards and guidelines. The theoretical part of the workshop will focus on the basic roles in semen analysis and importance of the external [...]
The new version of our CASA: SCA evolution was presented in the last ESHRE meeting in Munich as well as the new company image with new corporate colours, pictures and logo. SCA evolution, that will be soon available, is ready to work with Windows 8 operating system and touch screens and it includes improvements [...]
Last 2nd June we have installed a full SCA® system in the Pasteur Institute in Dakar (Senegal). This centre is fully equipped with ultimate technology, although they were performing the semen analysis manually in a subjective way. Having increased the number of samples to analyze in the laboratory, they decided to improve the quality [...]
The first observations concerning low-temperature preservation of spermatozoa date from 1776, when the Italian physiologist Spallanzani noted that spermatozoa cooled in snow became inactive but could be revived on warming, although, successful cryopreservation protocols date only from the 1950s. In 1949, the single most important development came with the discovery by Polge, Smith and Parkes [...]
As every year, our company celebrates an annual distributor´s meeting where we inform about the latest developments in our products and provide useful technical information to support the end user. This usually takes place during the ESHRE. But this time the meeting is in Barcelona, from the 6th to 9th May, with the goal to [...]
WHO Manual Analysis may be the Gold Standard for Semen Analysis but SCA CASA is more consistent than Manual analysis During the past year I assisted with a study investigating the relationship between World Health Organization (WHO 5, 2010) manual analysis criteria of semen analysis compared to SCA® CASA analysis which involved three independent centres [...]
The last 17th March 2014, we have received the renewal of the registration for our Sperm Class Analyzer- SCA® in the China Food and Drug Administration. The registration is valid until 19th February 2018. Find further information here: www.cfda.gov.cn This registration is obligatory for all Medical devices that are sold in the country.
