New role players in Africa using CASA for sperm quality assessment
Major new role players in the clinical setting using CASA technology for sperm quality assessment in Africa In most of Southern Africa and in Scandinavia there has long been a history of resistance to the use of [...]
Marriage of WHO5 and sperm functionality review and debate
Marriage of WHO5 and sperm functionality review and debate Since the appearance of the semen analysis manual of the World Health Organization in 2010 (WHO5), there has been many critical debates about its value and use. In [...]
Agricultural Research Council (ARC)
Three SCA upgrades and training to Germplasm, Conservation and Reproductive Biotechnologies (GCRB) Laboratory, Agricultural Research Council (ARC), Irene, Pretoria Figure 1: The ARC-GCRB personnel. The ARC-GCRB laboratories based in Pretoria-Irene, is well known for its [...]
Helping families grow and preserving species
Helping families grow and preserving species in danger of extinction Whenever friends ask me what I do for a living and I answer: “analyze sperm”, their first reaction is amusing. Some of them just smirk a little [...]
Visit by Microptic to collaborator laboratory in South Africa
Visit by Microptic Biologist to collaborator laboratory in Cape Town, South Africa for training and discussions Prof van der Horst and Dr Medarde in front of new Comparative Spermatology Laboratory during opening ceremony. Microptic SL [...]
Personal lubricants
Personal lubricants; for or against conception? Personal lubricants are occasionally demanded during intercourse or semen collection in clinical settings. This could be posing a problem for couples looking to conceive, as several lubricants have been reported to [...]