Sea urchin sperm: Appearance, collection and measurement of sperm motility - the ideal CASA solution! Sea urchins belong to the phylum Echinodermata meaning “spiny skinned”. There are five classes of Echinodermata and three of these are indicated below in Fig. 1 (A to C): The sea stars, the sea urchins and the [...]
How to improve sperm quality? Sperm quality can be affected by several factors, such as the environment, diseases, lifestyle, age, etc. Those related to men’s lifestyle are the easiest to modify when trying to improve sperm quality in terms of concentration, motility, fragmentation and even epigenetics, as described previously in this blog [...]
A major breakthrough: Fully automated Computer Aided Sperm Motility Analysis of African bee sperm! We alluded in an earlier blog to the importance of bees as keystone species globally and provided some background on the reproduction of the African bee and our research on bee sperm. Sperm motility in all animals including [...]
Microptic organiza un nuevo webinar gratuito para el día 14 de mayo: Características principales y nuevas mejoras en los sistemas CASA de Microptic Eduard Sànchez, CEO de Microptic, mostrará a los asistentes las principales características y mejoras de los sistemas CASA de la compañía. Asimismo, dará respuesta a preguntas tales como ¿qué [...]
At Microptic, we asked some of our clients about their research studies they have performed using our SCA system. In this blog, Dr Hatem Bahri (from Tunisia) introduces one of his most important research, presented at the last congress of the Tunisian Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics and second prize-winner: Sperm characteristics [...]
Microptic, compañía líder en el sector del análisis de semen, llevará el bien acogido SCA SCOPE, un dispositivo automatizado de laboratorio para evaluación de semen. Microptic será expositor (estand Z1.D44) en MEDLAB Middle East 2020, una de las ferias más grandes de laboratorio del mundo, del 3 al 6 de febrero, en [...]
Microptic organizó ayer con éxito un curso-taller sobre análisis de semen en Barcelona. Los asistentes, provenientes de diferentes centros FIV, hospitales y clínicas, pudieron ver y probar el nuevo equipo SCA SCOPE y conocer las últimas novedades del SCA. La formación, con parte teórica y práctica, se enfocó a la evaluación de [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
