Glad if that is some of the information you were hinting at.
Joelle Weaver MAOM, HTL (ASCP) QIHC
> From: carl.ho...@kcl.ac.uk
> To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:27:49 +
> Subject: [Histonet] Re: Cooling paraffin blocks with ice
>
> Nice one, Joelle.
>
I don't like ice-trays.
Well, I tried them and.they swelled me blocks!
Stick them blocks in the fridge, instead!
Sure, cooling them blocks is damn fine to get very thin kidney sections...
Diane!
The wonderful Chief Tech of Gt Ormond St kids Hospital Where are you???
You know all this stuf
Nice one, Joelle.
Good points
I thank you for that sophisticated paper!
Yep, wax is not JUST wax.
It indeed has a crystalline, sophisticated structure.
Yes, cutting good sections depends upon temp/speed of cutting/angle of
knife/additives/effectiveness of processing.
May be more variables .
Well said Rene! In my 40 plus years as a supervisor, manager, technical
support manager, and consultant; I have come across a broad spectrum of
experienced and inexperienced histologists. Their knowledge base may be
limited to their own experiences, or lack of it. A good supervisor or
ma
&nb= sp;Perhaps you can tell your mgr that you respect her style and
method, and= show her that your style and method is just as effective.
When Lee Luna wa= s my manager he said time after time "techniiques
are as varied as technici= ans". If at the end of the day you are
Jenny:
There is a saying that "life is too short to drink cheap wine". In the same way
life is too short to be frustrated daily working at a place where work is like
a daily uphill battle.
For what you describe you know your trade. Start looking for another place
although do not expect that your
Negative controls for IHC has been discussed before many times but it keeps
pupping up every noew and then.
This is my take on it:
1- if CAP requires them, so then do it. You do not want to have a negative
issue in your inspection
2- it is always good to have them for quality control of your pro
