Apparatus, methods and processes for sorting particles and for providing sex-sorted animal sperm

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A system for sorting a mixture of stained particles including stained particles having a characteristic A and stained particles having a characteristic B into at least one population, the system comprising: a. a fluid delivery system for delivering a fluid containing the stained particles in a flow path; b. an electromagnetic radiation source for exciting fluorescence emissions from the stained particles having characteristic A and the stained particles having characteristic B in the flow path; c. a photodetector for detecting the fluorescence emissions from the stained particles; d. a processor in communication with the photodetector for classifying the stained particles in the flow path …