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Presentación de SCA evolution y nueva imagen de MICROPTIC

By |2016-12-30T09:48:16+01:009 Jul 2014|News|

Durante el último ESHRE en Munich, se presentó la nueva versión SCA evolution, así como la nueva imagen de la empresa con nuevos colores corporativos, fotos y logo.                      SCA evolution, que estará pronto en el mercado, está preparada para trabajar con el sistema operativo Windows 8, con pantallas táctiles e incluye mejoras en todos [...]

Installation in Institute Pasteur (Dakar – Senegal)

By |2017-09-05T09:57:21+02:0016 Jun 2014|Blog|

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 [...]

Sperm Cryopreservation: Animal diluents and automatic analysis

By |2017-09-05T09:56:42+02:0013 May 2014|Blog|

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 [...]

Reunión y formación anual de los distribuidores de Microptic

By |2016-12-30T09:48:16+01:0012 May 2014|News|

Cada año, nuestra empresa celebra la reunión anual de distribuidores donde se les informa acerca de los últimos desarrollos y se les proporciona la información técnica necesaria para poder ofrecer soporte técnico de calidad a los usuarios. Normalmente esto se hace durante el ESHRE. Sin embargo, en esta ocasión, la reunión será en Barcelona del [...]

SCA® ha renovado el certificado de la CFDA

By |2016-12-30T09:48:18+01:009 Abr 2014|News|

El pasado 17 de marzo de 2014 recibimos la renovación del registro en el Chinese Food and Drug Adminintration (CFDA) para nuestro producto Sperm Class Analyzer- SCA®, que será válida hasta el 19 de febrero de 2018. Pueden encontrar más información en: www.cfda.gov.cn Este registro es obligatorio para todos los equipos médicos que se venden [...]

SCA® CASA, more consistent than manual analysis

By |2017-09-05T09:56:46+02:009 Abr 2014|Blog|

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 [...]

Installation in Biomnis (Lyon, France)

By |2017-09-05T09:56:39+02:006 Mar 2014|Blog|

Last February, I went to Biomnis for an installation and training of a complete SCA CASA system during three days (February 17th – 19th, 2014). Mr. Alexandre Cauchon, the technical Engineer from our French distributors (Nikon France), was also there to help me. Biomnis is one of the most important analysis laboratories in France and [...]

Installation in Central Fisheries Research Institute (TK)

By |2017-09-05T09:56:32+02:0018 Feb 2014|Blog|

Last January, one of our technical engineers, Mr Javier Briseño, installed one of our Sperm Analysers to be used in the analysis of several fish species: Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus), Sole (Soleidae), Salmonidae and Sturgeon (Actinopterygii). The installation and analysts training took place in the Central Fisheries Research Institute, Trabzon, Turkey in the Black Sea coast. [...]

MICROPTIC visits South Korea

By |2017-09-05T09:55:45+02:0016 Ene 2014|Blog|

Taking the opportunity that our distributor in South Korea, Joong Ang company, represented by their Service Sales Manager, Kevin Oh, sold a complete SCA system to a representative customer in South Korea, Albert Casquero, one of our technical engineers, visited this amazing country. Gangnam neighborhood, Seoul The trip started on Monday 8th of July, [...]

Why use a CASA system for sperm analysis?

By |2019-08-01T10:38:37+02:0020 Dic 2013|Blog|

A conventional semen analysis, as it is made in a Reproductive biology clinic or general laboratory, tries to find out the quality of the sample.  For that purpose, the microscopic characteristics must be evaluated: the concentration of the spermatozoa in the seminal liquid, their motility, morphology, vitality, and more recently, the presence of DNA fragmentation [...]