The advantages of a multidisciplinary team - my personal experience As the scientist I am, I have always considered myself as a curious person with the need to question my environment and learn more about the unknown. Going a little bit deeper into my personal experience, I spent 15 years in the [...]
Short blog about installation and training of SCA 6.5 at Zululand University, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa The Sperm Class Analyzer (SCA), Microptic's CASA System for semen analysis, was re-installed in the Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Zululand University, near Richard Bay, headed by Prof Khoboso Lehloenya. Gerhard van der Horst performed [...]
A new CASA system for East Africa, Tanzania, for the National Artificial Insemination Centre: A unique situation! Fig. 1: Entrance to NAIC with administrative quarters and laboratories. In Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa there is a great need to improve the quality of livestock in general and particulalrly cattle such [...]
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 Computer Aided Sperm Analysis (CASA) in the clinical/IVF laboratory setting. This is partly understandable since [...]
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 reproductive biology research on indigenous South African domestic animals. There are dozens of unique indigenous [...]
Our company has reasons to celebrate that we have installed 1,500 Sperm Class Analyzer® systems around the world. Microptic was mainly having all their activity in Spain until 2001, where the Export Department was created, allowing the company to expand it. Since then, the company has grown rapidly. The SCA® CASA System is a modular [...]
The newspaper “Diario del Fin del Mundo” publish this article about the installation of two new SCA systems in Argentine hospitals (article in Spanish).
Thanks to our new distributor in this country, the company LabServis, this February I could visit Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. Baku is an amazing city: it merges influences from Asian and European cultures. The city center looks a little bit like Dubai (big modern buildings, wide avenues and parks), but what I liked [...]
Last November I had the opportunity to visit Colombia for the first time. It was a very busy trip but very well organized and supported by our distributor ANICAM Enterprises. The first day I visited ANICAM’s offices and spent some time exchanging knowledge about our companies and products. I had also the opportunity to experience [...]
Last August's week I visited Ireland for the first time. It was in University of Limerick, the European City of Culture in 2014. I had the opportunity to enjoy life in an amazing University campus, I suggest it to all students that have the opportunity to go there. I installed there a complete SCA® veterinary [...]
