Just for fun: Check to see if your Sunday comic section carries Jump Start.
Check out today’s 10/23/11 strip.
Jump Start, a comic strip about a couple (policeman and nurse) and their kids,
has the oldest girl wanting to be a cochineal insect for Halloween – which is
where histology gets carmine
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Is there a slaughter house nearby? Call them, and have some documentation
that you are from a university - such as a memo on a letterhead.
Is there animal research at your university? Can they spare a rat?
Try to do this right before class, so there is less autolysis. Put tissue in
a plastic b
I suggest fresh pig-kidney, if you can get it at the butcher.
Kidney is relatively easy to cut and you can prepare small quaders of 2-3 mm
thickness, that are frozen fast enough directly in the cryocut.
After cutting you can wrap it in foil and store it in the fridge (-20°C) for
the next students.
