Laboratory apparatus and instruments, in particular laboratory apparatus and instruments for processing and/or examining particles, in particular laboratory apparatus and instruments for imaging, identifying, isolating, separating, dispensing and/or dispositioning particles, in particular individual or separate particles; laboratory apparatus and instruments, in particular laboratory apparatus and instruments for treating and/or culturing cells, in particular individual or separate cells; laboratory apparatus and instruments, in particular laboratory apparatus and instruments for processing and/or examining cells, in particular laboratory apparatus and instruments for imaging, identifying, isolating, separating, dispensing and/or dispositioning cells, in particular individual or separate cells; laboratory apparatus and instruments, in particular laboratory apparatus and instruments for generating and/or detecting fluorescence and luminescence signals associated with particles and/or cells, for imaging, identifying, isolating, separating, dispensing and/or dispositioning particles and/or cells, in particular individual or separate particles and/or cells; laboratory apparatus and instruments, in particular laboratory apparatus and instruments for imaging, identifying, isolating, separating, dispensing and/or dispositioning cells, in particular individual or separate cells, for genetic or biochemical analysis; laboratory apparatus and instruments, in particular laboratory apparatus and instruments for imaging, identifying, isolating, separating, dispensing and/or dispositioning eukaryotic cells, in particular animal, plant, insect, fungal or human cells, in particular individual or separate cells, and/or prokaryotic cells, in particular bacterial cells, in particular individual or separate cells; laboratory apparatus for processing cells; cell culture apparatus for use in laboratories; apparatus for scientific and laboratory research, in particular scientific research apparatus and laboratory apparatus for processing and/or examining cells or other particles, in particular individual or separate cells or other particles; scientific research apparatus and laboratory apparatus, in particular laboratory apparatus and instruments for imaging, identifying, isolating, separating, dispensing and/or dispositioning cells or other particles, in particular individual or separate cells or other particles; scientific research apparatus and laboratory apparatus, in particular scientific research apparatus and laboratory apparatus for generating and/or detecting fluorescence and luminescence signals associated with the aforesaid cells or other particles, in particular individual or separate cells or other particles; apparatus for scientific and laboratory research, in particular scientific research apparatus and laboratory apparatus for the genetic or biochemical analysis of cells, in particular individual or separate cells; apparatus for scientific and laboratory research, in particular scientific research apparatus and laboratory apparatus for eukaryotic cells, in particular animal, plant, insect, fungal or human cells, in particular individual or separate cells, and/or for prokaryotic cells, in particular bacterial cells, in particular individual or separate cells; computer software, in particular recorded or downloadable computer software, in particular computer software for operating and/or handling one of the aforesaid laboratory apparatus and instruments; computer software, in particular recorded or downloadable computer software, in particular computer software for obtaining, examining, analysing, processing, or for operating and/or handling laboratory apparatus for processing, cells for medical purposes, and for recording, transmission and/or reproduction of images of cells or other particles, in particular individual or separate cells or other particles.

Laboratory apparatus for processing cells for medical purposes, in particular laboratory apparatus for treating and/or culturing cells, in particular individual or separate cells, for medical purposes; laboratory apparatus for processing cells for medical purposes, in particular laboratory apparatus for imaging, identifying, isolating, separating, dispensing and/or dispositioning cells, in particular individual or separate cells, for medical purposes; laboratory apparatus for processing cells for medical purposes, in particular laboratory apparatus for generating and detecting fluorescence and luminescence signals associated with cells, for imaging, identifying, isolating, separating, dispensing and/or dispositioning cells, in particular individual or separate cells, for medical purposes; laboratory apparatus for processing cells for medical purposes, in particular laboratory apparatus for imaging, identifying, isolating, separating, dispensing and/or dispositioning cells for genetic or biochemical analysis, in particular individual or separate cells, for medical purposes; laboratory apparatus for processing cells for medical purposes, in particular laboratory apparatus for imaging, identifying, isolating, separating, dispensing and/or dispositioning eukaryotic cells, in particular animal, plant, insect, fungal or human cells, in particular individual or separate cells, and/or prokaryotic cells, in particular bacterial cells, in particular individual or separate cells, for medical purposes; cell culture apparatus for medical purposes.