Does this slow the embedder down any having to pick a bead up each time to embed along with the tissue? I've never heard of this procedure before. The labs I've worked in have an embedding log and we initial each case we embed. What do you keep the beads in and are they set in a particular spot on the embedding station so they're easily assessable?
-----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Taylor Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 5:15 PM To: Willis, Donna G.; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] Embedding beads Hi All We use Hamma beads to identify individual embedders on a particular day. Hamma beads will be well known to parents and child carers as tiny tube like beads that can be made into many patterns and then ironed (by adults) to make colourful place mats etc for children. Hamma beads come in a very wide range of colours, in bulk bags from any good toy or handicraft store. They are very cheap and they are clearly visible when placed in the corner of an embedding cassette when filling with wax. We have a small staff in our lab so the colours we have chosen are readily identifiable to an individual who has embedded a particular block. I can strongly recommend them, we have used them for a number of years as a traceable guide to a particular block. Hope this is helpful to all of you who are embedding lots of blocks each day. Best wishes to you all Alan Taylor BSc(Hons), FRMS Microtechnical Services 71 Sweetbrier Lane Heavitree Exeter. Devon. EX1 3AJ.UK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willis, Donna G." <donna.wil...@baylorhealth.edu> To: <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 3:58 PM Subject: [Histonet] Embedding beads Does anyone out in Histoland know of a vendor other that Mar Med to get small beads to put in cassettes to designate the person that embeds. Thanks, Donna Willis, HT/HTL (ASCP) Histology Lab Manager Baylor University Medical Center-Dallas ph. 214-820-2465 office ph. 214-725-6184 mobile donna.wil...@baylorhealth.edu ********************************************************************** This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. Baylor Health Care System, its subsidiaries, and affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet