Contact your local labs and Hospitals, you could just use some already
embedded and cut tissue that is about to be disposed of as long as there
is no patient info on the blocks it shouldn't be a problem. Anne
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From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
A Slim Jim would work or any meat or lunch meat purchased at the grocery store.
You will need to start by fixing the samples appropriately and then process,
embed and section. If you work in a research center that does animals studies
then I would see if you could not get some animal tissue
Go to a butcher and ask what fresh offal they have. That should be much
the same as autopsy tissue. In addition, heart, liver, kidney and steak
from a supermarket should be OK. If you can get some, a fresh placenta
is good for HE staining with a good mixture of elements, human or
animal makes
