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BIOFAR Laboratoris, our partner for the Pig 4MID Kit analyses

BIOFAR Laboratoris is our great partner in Spain to bring an innovative and functional approach in boar semen quality assessment ! Do not hesitate to contact them directly to know more about the Pig 4MID Kit Email : ...

Indispensable role of AKAP4 is confirmed for sperm function

Akap4-knockout mice line was recently generating using CRISPR-Cas9 system by Fang and collaborators. The loss of AKAP4 led to abnormal sperm morphology, motility and infertility as previously described by Miki et al. 2008. Their studies ...

LINALUX, OUR PARTNER IN BELGIUM

The SPQI-4BioDx team is the new partner and collaborator of Linalux Mont-le-Soie , an European equine center located in Belgium, which has relied on 4MID® Kit products to improve the reproductive evaluation and breeding of horses at its ...

ProAKAP4 as a marker of sperm quality in stallions

Check out our last publication in Theriogenology from our fruitful collaborations with Linalux, Dr. ean-Philippe Lejeune and Pr Didier Serteyn and the University of Liege (Belgium). With applications of the Horse 4MID kits , the first ...

BIONOVUS is the Australian distributor of 4BioDx products!

BioNovus is the main distributor of 4BioDx products in Australia! To order 4BioDx innovative products, you may then contact directly BioNovus at info@bionovuslifesciences.com.au . Or contact us to forward them your inquiries. ...

The 4MID® Kit To Optimize Semen Cryopreservation

The 4MID® Kits are unique ELISA Kits commercialized by SPQI-4BioDx that allows to objectively select the best semen and therefore will improve cryopreservation success results (by detecting poor freezers). The 4MID® Kits are ...

A Kinase Anchor Protein 4 Is Vulnerable to Oxidative Adduction in Male Germ Cells

Oxidative stress is a leading causative agent in the defective sperm function associated with male infertility. ProAKAP4 is clearly a target of oxidative stress and may be a pertinent read-out to be follow up using the 4MID approach ...

Tsingmu Biotechnology Company, our new distributor in China

Tsingmu Biotechnology Company is our new distributor in China which commercialize the 4BioDx products in the area of animal reproduction! You can contact them or us directly to purchase our products! Official name： ...

Chronic arsenic exposure impairs AKAP4 expression, sperm formation and fertility

ProAKAP4 expression is a marker of the quality of spermatogenesis and how spermatozoa are mature and functional in ejaculates. ProAKAP4/AKAP4 are crucial for sperm flagellum formation and for sperm motility (Fang et al. 2019). Furthermore, the ...

Cosmo Bio USA, INC our distributor in Canada and in USA

Cosmo Bio INC is our partner since SPQI inception and promotes all our innovative products in North America (USA and Canada). This Company brings Innovative biotools and services to USA and Canada. Excellent customer support enabled for SPQI ...

AKAP4 gene is downregulated in sterile hybrid offspring

The cattleyak are the hybrid offspring between cattle and yak and combine yak hardiness with cattle productivity in Tibet and in China. Milk yield is higher in F1 hybrids than in the pure yak and often higher than in the local types of cattle. ...

The Bull 4MID® Kit, a new tool to assess fertility

Check out our last results with the Bull 4MID® Kits to evaluate sperm quality and fertility in Holstein bulls! These results were presented in Gramado (Brazil) during the last CBRA Meeting in May 2019. In this large study, the ...

ProAKAP4: A New Parameter to Evaluate the Semen Quality

ProAKAP4 represents today a new molecular parameter to assess the quality of sperm. Among biomarkers, the specificity of proAKAP4 polypeptide is to be inside the spermatozoa, more precisely in the column and ribbons of the fibrous sheath ...

Biovet, our new distributor in Canada and USA

Biovet is our distributor in Canada which commercialize the 4BioDx products in the area of animal reproduction. You can contact them or us directly to purchase our products or to perform the analysis of your samples in case you ...

The International Day of Families!

This Thursday, May 15, 2020 was the annual celebration of the International Day of Families! We wish an excellent and joyful day to all "Families", those of blood and those of heart, to all those who gather together, sharing the ...

AKAP4 and heat-induced male infertility

ProAKAP4 expression is a marker of the quality of spermatogenesis and how spermatozoa are mature and functional in ejaculates. ProAKAP4/AKAP4 are crucial for sperm flagellum formation and for sperm motility (Fang et al. 2019). Furthermore, the ...

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! Joyeuse Fête de Pâques ! Peace, Joy and Happiness ! We want to wish all the best on this special time of the year an happy Easter ! Easter gives hope for tomorrow, Easter is a time of reflection and joy. We wish a Pleased, ...

Blossom Biotechnologies, our new partner and distributor in Taiwan

Thanks to Blossom Biotechnologies , all 4BioDx products are now available in Taiwan. Our Taiwan customers can now order easily our innovative 4BioDx products via our partner and distributor in Taiwan The 4MID® Kits are the ...

The 4MID® Kit is now available for cat semen

An Innovative Test of Sperm Quality called 4MID® Kit is now available for Cat ! The Cat 4MID® Kit (Ref. 4VDX-19K10) is the first test that validates objectively semen quality by quantifying a protein biomarker named proAKAP4 in cat semen. ...

GreenPure : Our Partner in South Korea

Thanks to GreenPure , all 4BioDx products are now available in Korea. Our Korean customers can now order easily our innovative 4BioDx products via our partner and distributor in South Korea. GreenPure is a well-renowned Korean company ...

Happy New Year! Bonne Année 2020!

Happy New Year from all of us at SPQI - 4BioDx ! And many many thanks to all our partners, customers, distributors, agents and collaborators worldwide that have been there for us! We are so thankful for a great 2019 year and we are sure that ...

Joyeux Noël! Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas ! May Joy and Peace be with you all! Partners, customers and collaborators! And more especially to all the members of our team (actual, past and to come :) We really are thankful for this great year 2019 ! ...

The 4MID® kits now available in Brazil !

LEAC is now the official distributor of innovative 4BioDx products in Brazil. Located in Sao Paulo, LEAC is specialized in the sector of analytical laboratories (human and veterinary) as well as in in vitro diagnostic devices. The company ...

AKAP4 is overexpressed in fertile water buffalo

Fu et al. 2019 have recently identified the marker AKAP4 in the spermatozoa from fertile normozoospermic buffalos, bulls or swines. They also stated that never found in the seminal fluids - Only in cells, spermatozoa. Check out their ...

Happy Thanksgiving Day

Happy Thanksgiving Day from the 4BioDx teams ! We want to thank all our partners, customers, distributors and friends for this great and wonderful year of success alltogether ! Visit our websites for great offers for this ...

AKAP4 as a marker of sperm fertility in bulls

AKAP4 transcripts were recently spotted again as the top five validated transcripts significantly increased (p < 0.05) in their level of expression in good quality bull semen compared to the poor quality bulls (classification based on their ...

AKAP4 as an highly conserved indicator of sperm quality

In mammals, the spermatozoa must undergo physiological changes, as named as capacitation, in the female reproductive tract prior to be able to fertilize ovocyte. A recent study from Brett Nixon and collaborators in Mol. Cell Proteomics , ...

The 4MID® kits are now available in Turkey !

Diagen is now the main distributor of 4BioDx ® products in Turkey. All our innovative may be then purchased from Diagen, including the 4MID ®, the first functional test to assess sperm quality and fertility. To order 4BioDx innovative ...

proAKAP4 in human spermatozoa

AKAP4 and its precursor called pro-AKAP4 are two major proteins of the human sheath spermatozoa (Johnson et al., 1997), playing a role in sperm motility and fertility. Spermatozoa without proAKAP4/AKAP4 are abnormal, immobile and infertile ...

Cosmo Bio Co as a distributor of 4BioDx products in Japan

SPQI - 4BioDx is pleased to announce that Cosmo Bio Co, Ltd is now the main distributor of 4BioDx products in Japan ! Cosmo Bio Co, Ltd is one of the biggest distributor of laboratory reagents in Japan. This well-renowed ...

BioNovus : The Australian distributor of 4BioDx products!

SPQI - 4BioDx is pleased to announce that BioNovus is now the main distributor of 4BioDx products in Australia! To order 4BioDx innovative products, you may then contact directly BioNovus at info@bionovuslifesciences.com.au . Or contact ...

The 1st immunoassay to assess semen quality in pig

Discover our new product: The Pig 4MID ® kit The Pig 4MID ® kit (Ref. 4VDX-17K2 ) is the first test that validates objectively semen quality by quantifying a protein biomarker named pro AKAP4 in pig semen. The Pig 4MID ® kit ...

AKAP4 as a biomarker in colon cancers

Kodehi and collaborators (2018) have recently showed that AKAP4 expression is significantly correlated with liver metastasis in colon cancer patients. Therefore AKAP4 may have a potential as a pronostic biomarker in colon cancer. Cancer ...

Discover our Mouse / Rat 4MID® Kit

Discover our new Mouse 4MID® Kit, a complete immunoassay that allows you to quantify of the sperm protein called proAKAP4 in mouse or rat semen. The proAKAP4 marker is a pertinent sperm parameter to be investigated in preclinical, ...

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Sign up to the newsletter and enjoy 10% off on your next order! After signing up to our newsletter you will receive a voucher by email. To register to our newsletter, just enter your email address in the box "Newsletter" ...

Li StarFish, distributor of 4BioDx products in Italy

Thanks to Li StarFish , 4BioDx products are now available in Italy. Our Italian customers can now order easily our innovative 4BioDx products via our partner and distributor in Italy . They may then contact directly Li StarFish at ...

DPC Lebanon commercializes 4BioDx products in the Middle East

DCP Lebanon sarl commercializes 4BioDx innovative products in the Middle East. Now, our customers in Lebanon, in Jordan, in Iran, in Egypt, in KSA, in Qatar, in Bahrain, in Kuwait and UAE can order easily our products! Do not hesitate to contact ...

Best autumn offer on all our antibodies

Get a 20% Off when you order online any of monoclonal or polyclonal antibodies ! This is the best time to test by yourself our innovative products. Please discover for instance the Anti-Tau [pS422] antibody, clone 2H9 ( Ref. 4BDX-1501 ...

Joyeux Noël ! Merry Christmas

Joyeux Noël et Belles Fêtes de Fin d'Année à Tous ! Nos équipes seront présentes tous les jours à l'exception du 24 décembre et du 31 décembre 2018. Aucune colis ne partira le 24 et 25 décembre, ainsi que le 31 décembre 2018 et le 1er janvier ...

Get a 20% off on all 4BioDx antibodies!

To celebrate the arrival of summer, we are glad to offer you a 20 % off on all 4BioDx antibodies references! This is an opportunity for you to test our antibodies in the fields of human reproduction and animal reproduction ...

SPQI in the newspaper "La Voix du Nord" / Force Awards

Click here to read the article "SPQI : que les Force (Awards) soient avec la recherche académique" in the newspaper La Voix du Nord (24th of December 2016). Follow SPQI - 4BioDx on Linked In ! All our news, click here

SPQI Winner of the 2016 "Force Awards"

Maryse Delehedde, President of SPQI was honored to receive two awards at the Force Awards Ceremony held on the 24th of November 2016 at the Ankama headquarters in Roubaix. On the one hand, SPQI won the trophy in the category ...

ProAKAP4: Un Nouveau Paramètre Pour Évaluer la Qualité Du Sperme

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BIOFAR Laboratoris, our partner for the Pig 4MID Kit analyses

Indispensable role of AKAP4 is confirmed for sperm function

LINALUX, OUR PARTNER IN BELGIUM

ProAKAP4 as a marker of sperm quality in stallions

BIONOVUS is the Australian distributor of 4BioDx products!

The 4MID® Kit To Optimize Semen Cryopreservation

A Kinase Anchor Protein 4 Is Vulnerable to Oxidative Adduction in Male Germ Cells

Tsingmu Biotechnology Company, our new distributor in China

Chronic arsenic exposure impairs AKAP4 expression, sperm formation and fertility

Cosmo Bio USA, INC our distributor in Canada and in USA

AKAP4 gene is downregulated in sterile hybrid offspring

The Bull 4MID® Kit, a new tool to assess fertility

ProAKAP4: A New Parameter to Evaluate the Semen Quality

Biovet, our new distributor in Canada and USA

The International Day of Families!

AKAP4 and heat-induced male infertility

Happy Easter!

Blossom Biotechnologies, our new partner and distributor in Taiwan

The 4MID® Kit is now available for cat semen

GreenPure : Our Partner in South Korea

Happy New Year! Bonne Année 2020!

Joyeux Noël! Merry Christmas!

The 4MID® kits now available in Brazil !

AKAP4 is overexpressed in fertile water buffalo

Happy Thanksgiving Day

AKAP4 as a marker of sperm fertility in bulls

AKAP4 as an highly conserved indicator of sperm quality

The 4MID® kits are now available in Turkey !

proAKAP4 in human spermatozoa

Cosmo Bio Co as a distributor of 4BioDx products in Japan

BioNovus : The Australian distributor of 4BioDx products!

The 1st immunoassay to assess semen quality in pig

AKAP4 as a biomarker in colon cancers

Discover our Mouse / Rat 4MID® Kit

Newsletter subscription / discount voucher

Li StarFish, distributor of 4BioDx products in Italy

DPC Lebanon commercializes 4BioDx products in the Middle East

Best autumn offer on all our antibodies

Joyeux Noël ! Merry Christmas

Get a 20% off on all 4BioDx antibodies!

SPQI in the newspaper "La Voix du Nord" / Force Awards

SPQI Winner of the 2016 "Force Awards"

ProAKAP4: Un Nouveau Paramètre Pour Évaluer la Qualité Du Sperme