Perhaps, you need to ask this professional's level of comfort in performing IHC...
Best regards, Jerry ________________________________ From: Amos Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 5:06:54 PM Subject: [Histonet] RE: Dako and Leica immunostainers No Way!! Just because there are new gadgets & gizmos on the newer instruments doesn't make them better. Versatility = Simplicity! Taking an instrument that works GREAT off the market just because there are newer ones that are all limited is dumb. We should follow Darwin and see the natural selection process through. More complicated systems are often more buggy (... see M$ Vista for example). Bells & Whistles are not selling points. Consistency & Versatility are. Gettin off my soapbox... Amos Message: 23 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:35:55 -0500 From: "Sally Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Histonet] RE: Dako and Leica immunostainers To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 All, After reading this thread I just had offer my comments. I'm not a big fan of systems that do the dewax and AR, primarily because it costs way too much to automate these steps. I've never used the Bond, but I hear that you've gotta put some plastic thingy - that probably costs too much - on top of each slide, you gotta use their detection reagents - which probably cost more than other companies, they charge you for empty barcoded reagent containers, all the slides in the same tray have to use the same detection reagents - which means that the continuous-feed feature has some serious limits, it can't do double-stains, and they have less than 50 IVD-approved antbodies. Can someone verify for me if all this issues are true? If so, why would someone want one of these stainers? The Dako stainer is a dinosaur and with all the newre/better ones available, they should probably take it off the market. Cheers, Sally _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet