[Histonet] Great job opportunity

2012-01-04 Thread Lemke, Nancy
Good morning Histoland! I would like to tell you about a wonderful job in a great lab with very special people. I am retiring but my job isn't! I run the histo core for the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI. I have a group of Neurosurgery Research investigators

[Histonet] molecular fixatives

2011-09-06 Thread Lemke, Nancy
I am gathering information on molecular fixatives, specifically one from Theranostics Health and one From Sakura, developed for the XPress processors. Does anyone have experience with either or both of these for RNA, DNA and protein work as well as IHC for phospho antibodies? I would really ap

[Histonet] use of isopentane substitutes for tissue freezing

2011-08-16 Thread Lemke, Nancy
Hello all, I am considering purchasing a freezing unit through Thermo that can be used with either isopentane of a new solution, HFE-7000 that is sold with the unit. I need to be able to have frozen samples that allow high quality DNA and RNA extracted. Does anyone have any experience with th

FW: [Histonet] frozen sample cassettes

2011-06-08 Thread Lemke, Nancy
: eloner...@metrocast.net [eloner...@metrocast.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 1:27 PM To: Lemke, Nancy Subject: Re: [Histonet] frozen sample cassettes Nancy I helped develop this unit. I'll get the new company name. They used to have a website, try it. I think its just cryosette.com. O

[Histonet] frozen sample cassettes

2011-06-08 Thread Lemke, Nancy
Greetings Histofolk! I have run out of a cassette that I use for storage of frozen rodent brains. It is about the general dimensions of a routine processing cassette but has a screw cap that seals the sample into a round storage area which has no openings other than the screw off lid.. There i

[Histonet] RE: OT: April Fool's Nonsense

2011-03-29 Thread Lemke, Nancy
The absolute best one I ever witnessed was when I worked in a histo lab that was next to the microbiology lab. To set up the director, some one came in with a stool specimen cup that was used in parasitology. It had a very official patient sticker on the side and was shown to the director. He