Hi Samantha, Microwaves are terrible! I am really not a fan of them in general, but especially for drying slides, and even moreso for slides intended for IHC. There is no way to really monitor the temperature the slides get to. Sure you can get a fnacy one with a probe, but that probe only monitors the solution it is in, not the small bubbles of water under the section or even the section itself. You end up with areas that get *really* hot and areas that are barely heated at all. At best you get an average heating. You would be much better off using an oven and even better a convection oven. A small fan to move the heat around really drys the slides out well
Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 11:24:07 -0500 From: Samantha Golden <samantha.gol...@ymail.com> To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] Microwave slide drying Message-ID: <910829c0-7145-4c10-8731-fc2cafd44...@ymail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 What are the Histonets thoughts toward drying your slides in the microwave?.. pros/cons I would specifically like feedback regarding the slides being used for IHC. My new lab does this and it?s new to me. Thanks!! Samantha _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet