For the love of your sanity (and keeping your pathologists happy)= DO NOT BUY A SYMPHONY!!!! Their reagents are all proprietary and so troubleshooting is almost impossible without paying Ventana to have tech he= lp loom around your lab. The slides take 3 days or so to dry before y= ou can file them, so you have to have tons of counterspace (depending on yo= ur volume) to let them sit there in slide folders before you can file. = ; The pathologists I worked with when we were trying this thing out hated t= he staining and said that it wasn't consistent from slide to slide. N= ot to mention the physical size of the thing and the reagents are insane ex= pensive!!!
Just my opinion =) Sarah Goebel, B.A., H= T (ASCP) Histotechnician XBiotech USA Inc. 8201 East Riverside Dr. Bldg 4 Suite 100 <= em> Austin, Te= xas 78744 (512)386-2907 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Histonet] Need opinions on H&E stainers please! From: "Kendall Neely" <[1]nee...@s= hands.ufl.edu> Date: Fri, October 22, 2010 7:31 am To: <[2]histo...@lists= .utsouthwestern.edu> Our laboratory will be purchasing new H&E stain equipment in the near f= uture. We would like to hear the pros and cons out there for the Thermo-Sh= andon Gemini, Sakura Prisma, Leica Autostainer XL and the Ventana Symphony.= Thanks in advance for your input. Kendall A. Neely Histology Technical Specialist Shands Rocky Point Laboratories (352) 265-0111, x72113 _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [3]histo...@lists.utsouth= western.edu [4]http:= //lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet References 1. 3D"mailto:nee...@shands.ufl.edu"; 2. 3D"mailto:histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu"; 3. 3D"mailto:Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu"; 4. 3D"http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet"; _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
