Re: [Histonet] Negative Control for Validation

2014-09-29 Thread Sue
What we do here is run a mix of expected negative and positive cases this way we are sure we are not getting exogenous staining.  Depending on the antibody we try to run at least a mix of 25 cases.  In some cases the antibody  proves difficult to get a large amount of positive cases and we make

[Histonet] Negative Control for Validation

2014-09-29 Thread Arrington, Karla A
We are beginning the process of validating new antibodies using the BenchMark XT but have some questions for validation. Question: For a positive reagent control that stains appropriately positive, is a known control block used? If not, what is used? Question: For a negative reagent control th