[Histonet] International Certification

2016-05-13 Thread Wanda Shotsberger Gray via Histonet
A co-worker passed the HTL exam yesterday (Way to go Dan) and wants to know if his spiffy new HTL certificate is good internationally. Does anyone know? Thank you, Wanda Shotsberger HT/HTL (ASCP) Charleston, SC Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com __

[Histonet] Processing FFPE tissue without alcohol

2016-03-26 Thread Wanda Shotsberger Gray via Histonet
While the tissue will still go through alcohol, have you considered preserving the fat with osmium tetroxide prior to routine processing? This turns the fat black, but it is retained in the tissue. Hi Histonet, is there a way to process tissue for paraffin embedding without using alcohol? O

[Histonet] Permanent Microtome Knives

2014-04-06 Thread Wanda Shotsberger Gray
CL Sturkey sells excellent knives and blades, and supports NSH and state societies. http://www.sturkey.com/products/permanent-knives They also will recondition knives. Wanda Shotsberger Gray Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com

[Histonet] Re: Histonet Digest, Vol 115, Issue 10

2013-06-10 Thread Wanda Shotsberger Gray
Hi Megan, Welcome to the anatomic side! I just googled "history of tissue dyes" and a wealth of information popped up including this PDF: www.immunologie-labor.com/cellmarker_files/IET_reagents_07.pdf all about the discovery of hematoxylin and aniline dyes. The time period you mentioned was the

[Histonet] Recording formalin "out times"

2013-05-10 Thread Wanda Shotsberger Gray
would be appreciated, and vendors: Are you listening? Make this part of your LIS product, please. Thank you all, Wanda Shotsberger Gray HT/HTL (ASCP)___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet