Re: [Histonet] Processing FFPE tissue without alcohol

2016-03-28 Thread Dessasau III, Evan via Histonet
Will they be able to do IHC stains? -Original Message- From: Wanda Shotsberger Gray via Histonet [mailto:histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2016 12:56 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] Processing FFPE tissue without alcohol While the

[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