To provide a microchip that is easily handled.

Provided is a microchip having a plate shape and including: a sample liquid inlet into which a sample liquid is introduced; a main flow path through which the sample liquid introduced from the sample liquid inlet flows; and a sorting flow path into which a target sample is sorted from the sample liquid, in which the sample liquid inlet and a terminal end of the sorting flow path are formed on a same side surface. Furthermore, a sample sorting kit including the microchip is also provided. Moreover, a microparticle sorting device on which the microchip is mounted is also provided.

In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a channel, a camera, and a processor. The channel contains a fluid and an object. The fluid is to move the object through the channel. The camera system is to capture video images of the object in the channel. The processor is to track movement of the object in the channel via the video images based on known flow dynamics of the channel.

A method of automated measurement of motility and morphology parameters of the same single motile sperm. Automated motility and morphology measurements of the same single sperm are performed under different microscope magnifications. The same single motile sperm is automatically positioned and kept inside microscope field of view and in focus after magnification switch. A method of automated non-invasive measurement of sperm morphology parameters under high magnification of imaging. Sperm morphology parameters including subcellular structures are automatically measured without invasive sample staining. A method of automatically selecting sperms with normal motility and morphology and DNA integrity for infertility treatment.

The invention provides devices and methods for linked multimodal measurements of individual particles using a mass sensor and an additional sensor.

Embodiments of the present invention provide predictions from semen qualities (7) embryo characteristics (9), qualities (11), intracellular qualities (13), extracellular qualities (14), or the like of which a computational device prediction models automated computational transformation algorithm (3) may be applied to create a prediction model transformed data (4) perhaps to generate a prediction models completed prediction output which may be used to predict parameters (6) such as fertility-related parameters, fertility of an animal, embryo success rate, or the like.

The apparati, methods, and computer program products disclosed herein can be used to nondestructively detect undissolved particles, such as glass flakes and/or protein aggregates, in a fluid in a vessel, such as, but not limited to, a fluid that contains a drug.

A method for monitoring the media flow of a jet of droplets is intended to enable reliable process management, especially in industrial applications, in a particularly simple and resource-saving manner. For this purpose signal signatures assigned to individual droplets are continuously recorded by time-resolved measurement of the intensity of the scattered light of a light beam crossing the droplet beam, from which a diagnostic parameter characteristic of the droplet beam is determined.

An apparatus for nondestructive detection of transparent or reflective objects in a vessel includes an imager configured to acquire data that represent light reflected from spatial locations in the vessel as a function of time, a memory operably coupled to the imager and configured to store the data, and a processor operably coupled to the memory and configured to detect the objects based on the data by (i) identifying a respective maximum amount of reflected light, over time, for each location in the spatial locations based on the data representing light reflected from the spatial locations as a function of time, and (ii) determining a presence or absence of the objects in the vessel based on the number of spatial locations whose respective maximum amount of reflected light, over time, exceeds a predetermined value.

To provide an adjusting method of a positional relationship between a flow path position and a light irradiation position.

The present technology provides a position adjusting method provided with an imaging step of imaging, while moving a flow path through which a microparticle is able to flow in an optical axis direction, the flow path in a plurality of positions in the optical axis direction, a movement step of moving the flow path in the optical axis direction on the basis of a focus index for each of a plurality of images acquired at the imaging step, and an adjustment step of specifying a feature position of the flow path from an image of the flow path in a position after movement at the movement step, and adjusting a positional relationship between the feature position and a reference position in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction.

A system for droplet measurement includes an inkjet head including a nozzle which discharges droplets, a substrate on which droplets discharged from the nozzle of the inkjet head are dripped, a first detector disposed below the substrate and including a first camera and a first focusing structure, and a second detector disposed below the substrate and including a second camera and a second focusing structure.