Hello Betsy! I use Leica's EM400 for my paraffin embedding needs and it does extremely well for all of my decalcified bone work. Of course I mostly work with undemineralized bone, biomaterials and medical device implants so I pretty routinely utilize acrylic resins (MMA) for most of my work. With that said, if you need any help or assistance should you need to go the route of plastic embedding, feel free to contact me. One quick note, I also have access to a non-contact laser (laser microtome) that can cut thin micron linear or 3D sections of fresh or resin embedded tissues. If you are interested, I would love to see if this technology could help service your needs if you have some spare tissue samples that you could send over to me. Best Regards, Jack
Jack L. RatliffOwner/Histologist - Ratliff Histology Consultants, LLCChairman, Hard Tissue Committee - National Society for histotechnology317-281-1975jratl...@ratliffhistology.com From: bmolin...@texasheart.org To: Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:31:02 +0000 CC: Subject: [Histonet] "harder" paraffin Hi Histonetters, Good Friday to you all. Do you know if there is a “harder” paraffin that may offer more support to the tissue while cutting? I currently use Paraplast Plus and love it, but now I am cutting some polymer material and there is some tearing and was thinking that maybe a different paraffin would help. I am trying to avoid embedding in plastic. Thanks, Betsy Molinari HT (ASCP) Texas Heart Institute Cardiovascular Pathology 1101 Bates Street Houston,TX 77030 832-355-6524 (lab) 832-355-6812 (fax) [THI Celebrates 50 Years]<http://www.texasheart.org/AboutUs/History/index.cfm> Betsy Molinari Senior Histology Research Technician 832-355-6524 | bmolin...@texasheart.org<mailto:bmolin...@texasheart.org> www.texasheart.org<www.texasheart.orghttp://www.texasheart.org> TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE 6770 Bertner Ave. MC 1-283 | Houston, TX 77030 [Receive electronic news from THI]<https://secure3.convio.net/thi/site/SPageNavigator/GlobalSiteOptInPage.html>[THI on Facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/Texas.Heart.Institute>[THI on Twitter]<http://twitter.com/Texas_Heart>[THI on YouTube]<http://www.youtube.com/TexasHeartInstitute>[THI's Flickr page]<http://www.flickr.com/photos/texasheart/sets/> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information in this e-mail may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review or dissemination or copying of this e-mail and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this e-mail from your computer system. _______________________________________________ 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
