Re: [Histonet] Dirty H after break

2017-01-06 Thread Allan Wang via Histonet
Yep, filtering the hematoxlyn fixed it. Thanks for the tip. Is it worthwhile to filter the eosin, alcohols, and xylene substitutes as well? Allan On Jan 4, 2017 1:04 AM, "Tony Henwood (SCHN)" < tony.henw...@health.nsw.gov.au> wrote: > Hi Allan, > > The flakes are alum precipitates. > > I

[Histonet] Quality Assessment (QA)

2017-01-06 Thread Elaine allison Hoffman via Histonet
Hello Histonetter's and Happy New Year! I have a question concerning Histology Quality Assessment (QA) and what that would look like.  We are a tiny GI histology lab that has been opened for only a few years.  My last CLIA inspection last month went well, but the inspector said that we needed

[Histonet] Questions RE: "what I have found about p16" and cellblocks for controls

2017-01-06 Thread Cassie P. Davis via Histonet
Is there anyone in Histonet land who is using both the Optiview and Ultraview on the XT and ULTRA at the same time? I'd like to ask a few questions, please email me. We have a cytology cellblock case that came out stunningly positive for Her2 and one of our pathologist thought it would

[Histonet] IHC question

2017-01-06 Thread Lauren Sweeney via Histonet
Hello Histonet world, Our lab has an old Dako Autostainer for IHC and there is a leak in the y-axis arm at the point where the tubing goes through a juncture. I was wondering if there is anyone out there that uses this in there lab? If so, where do you get spare parts for it? Our PI wants us