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 [...]
Microptic organise un nouveau webinaire gratuit le 15 octobre : L’utilisation de systèmes CASA (Computer Aided Sperm Analisys) dans le domaine de la recherche. Quels sont les équipements essentiels pour la recherche ? Lequel est le mieux : sperme frais ou sperme lavé ? Comment devrait-on utiliser les données quantitatives ? Quelles [...]
How to improve your domestic stock through intelligent solutions! The importance and size of the global domestic animal market is enormous and only the beef market translates to USD 332.9 billion in 2020 with a revenue forecast of about USD 383.5 billion by 2027. The beef market is dominant in USA and [...]
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 [...]
Is infertility a disease or a condition or a symptom? Is infertility a disease or a condition or a symptom? This aspect is much debated and very diverse opinions exist on this topic. But let us first review some formal considerations: The World Health Organization defines infertility to be “a disease of [...]
The African rhinoceros’ crisis: What can reproductive biologists do? Fig. 1: African white rhinoceros shortly after darting (horns have been cut so that poachers may be less interested). There are two species of African rhinoceros, the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, and the white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum (Fig. 1). South Africa [...]
Le Professeur Gerhard van der Horst (PhD, PhD), Consultant Senior Microptic basé en Afrique du Sud, est venu en octobre 3 semaines pendant lesquelles il s’est rendu en Espagne, au Royaume-Uni, aux Pays Bas et en Pologne. Première étape : Barcelone Pendant 2 jours le Professeur Gerhard van der Horst est resté [...]
First comprehensive CASA study of Free ranging African elephant sperm in the wild: What does it take? It is seldom realized what it really takes to perform such a formidable research task in the total wilderness. It is not as if there are ten elephants behind bars waiting for semen collection in [...]
Frogs are both sentinel and keystone species and globally threatened: The need to study their sperm biology! Fig. 1: Amazon tree frog during amplexus. (https://live.staticflickr.com/2042/2432835781_af64b46f2f_b.jpg) Everyone knows what a frog is but where do these fascinating animals fit in the Animal Kingdom? They are amphibians (can live on land - [...]
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 [...]
