histology lab Articles
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Slide Warmer Cheat Sheet
Slide warmers have multiple functions and can do much more than “warm” slides. The main purpose of a slide warmer is to dry or warm slides and help stain slides. Here are some other functions customers use our slide warmers for: Warm gel packs: Believe it or not, we get requests to buy slide warmers to warm gel packs. Doctors’ offices place the gel packs on the warmer ...
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Glutaraldehyde and Formaldehyde – Health Hazards in Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities
Glutaraldehyde and Formaldehyde Glutaraldehyde is very similar to formaldehyde in its structure and uses in the healthcare industry. Chemically, Glutaraldehyde exists at room temperature as a liquid, whereas formaldehyde exists under those conditions as a gas, which can easily be dissolved in water. Glutaraldehyde is often used as a substitute for formaldehyde because formaldehyde is now a ...
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A slide stainer for hematology: IUL’s PolyStainer
Slide staining can be tedious, and guarantee the same standards in quality from the first to the last slide is challenging. To solve this, the automatization of the process can be a solution. However, slide stainers for hematology can be expensive and tricky to use. The haemato-pathologist should ensure a good quality smear, thorough examination, and proper interpretation in line with ...
By IUL S.A.
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Glutaraldehyde – Health Hazards in Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities
Glutaraldehyde is very similar to formaldehyde in its structure and uses in the healthcare industry. Chemically, glutaraldehyde exists at room temperature as a liquid, whereas formaldehyde exists under those conditions as a gas, which can easily be dissolved in water. Glutaraldehyde is often used as a substitute for formaldehyde because formaldehyde is now a suspect cancer-causing substance. ...
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Formaldehyde – Protecting Hospital Workers
Formaldehyde health and safety is vital since the chemical has many uses in the healthcare industry, not just preserving bodies in the morgue. Formaldehyde is used as a disinfectant as well as a tissue preservative. As a tissue preservative, it can be found in histology labs where tissues are sectioned and prepared for microscopic analysis. Of course, autopsies can also subject the examiner and ...
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Computer Vision-Based Digital Biomarkers Could Enable Faster and More Accurate In Vivo Assessment of Disease
At Recursion, we are working to decode biology and industrialize drug discovery. We have successfully executed over 82 million phenomic experiments and inferred over 179 billion biological relationships in our quest to identify promising novel therapeutic approaches. Now, we are extending our industrialized approach to petabytes of pre-clinical in vivo studies. Digitalizing in vivo studies ...
By Recursion
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