Hi Histonetters! We are experiencing sporadic staining of retic fibers from
our Ventana Benchmark machines. We have 2 machines and are having the same
problem on both. The machines were both decontaminated 2 weeks ago with all new
solutions being made. The fibers are not crisp and are
We are also having crystals show up on our PAS stain using the Ventana
Benchmark . I was hoping using a new lot of stain would solve the problem but
from previous posts I see this did not help. I will be contacting the company
tomorrow. Anyone else having this issue? Thanks for your
This is in response to a question about the ACE stain for Hirschprung's. Here
at Penn State University M.S. Hershey Medical Center we still do the ACE stain
using a kit from MBL (Medical and Biological Laboratories CO., LTD.) The
instructions come with the kit. It provides enough reagents to