[Histonet] Tracking of blocks onto processors

UNOFFICIAL Hi Histonetters, Just wondering if or how others are tracking/scanning racks of blocks onto processors. In this day and age of traceability with barcodes, we scan each block in each rack before loading onto a processor and recording which processor that rack went on to. Has anyone

[Histonet] Tissue Tek AutoTEC a120

OFFICIAL Hello Histonet! Just wondering if anyone has had experience or comments regarding the TissueTek AutoTEC a120? We are looking into a new embedding station and it came up as a possibility. Kind regards, Chris Hagon | Senior Scientist, Anatomical Pathology ACT Pathology

[Histonet] Cutting benchmarks

UNCLASSIFIED Hello Histonetters, Just wondering if anyone has had any benchmarks put in place in regards to blocks cut or slides produced per histotech/scientist per day? I realise that there are differing levels of complexity per block, we range from 1 slide per block to 21 one micron

Re: [Histonet] Oil Red O permanent mountant

UNCLASSIFIED Hi again, Meant to say ThermoFisher Aqua Mount, not Permount in my previous post. Apologies, Chris Hagon | Senior Scientist, Anatomical Pathology ACT Pathology | health.act.gov.au Phone (02) 5124 2874

[Histonet] Permanent mountant for Oil Red O

UNCLASSIFIED Hello Histonetters, We do Oil Red O stains on frozen section post mortem tissue, and need to find a permanent aqueous mounting medium. We used to use the Thermo-Fisher Perm-mount, but can't seem to get it anymore. As they are looking for fat deposits, we can't use any solvent

[Histonet] Xylene substitutes for clearing agents

UNOFFICIAL Hello histonetters! I realise that this has been asked a lot, but cannot find a good link for the comparisons of each. I am charged with looking into converting our lab to go xylene free. We don't want to go down the limonene path, so that leaves the isopropyl alcohol method, or

Re: [Histonet] Fisher SlideMate printers [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Apparently the printheads don't like brands of cassettes made of harder plastic, the pins tend to pop out resulting in poor printing. I believe there is a list of 'approved cassettes' in the back of the manual. Or call your rep, they should be able to point you in the right direction. I think