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GEDIS® The "All-in-one" AI Catheter

A Revolutionary Idea

Genes Diffusion recognizes that for everyone to succeed in today’s increasingly global livestock industry, we must identify and develop solutions to lower overall production costs and improve production efficiency to allow producers to stay competitive in this rapidly changing market.

With this in mind, in 1998, Genes Diffusion’s R&D team began developing a new AI technology that would allow swine producers to reduce labor during breeding while increasing reproductive efficiency. After several years refining the concept, in early 2001 Genes Diffusion introduced the GEDIS® AI catheter to the European market. Today, over 5.5 million doses of semen are packaged using the GEDIS® catheter every year.

The Concept

The idea behind the GEDIS® is to maximize the efficiency of both labor and reproductive performance during insemination. The GEDIS® is a complete insemination unit with the semen and catheter “All-In-One”. The semen is packaged along the length of the catheter shaft in a collapsible membrane. The semen is held in the GEDIS® by a temperature sensitive gel plug which is designed to melt at 100°F. Once the GEDIS® is inserted, the sow’s body temperature activates the insemination process by warming the semen and the gel plug up to 100°F. As a result, the gel plug melts and the semen is release.