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Services

Overview

  • We accept fresh and fixed specimens. Please, check Guidelines for sample handling and transport.
  • We will consult with users and perform quality control step(s) before agreeing to provide services.
  • Users must complete the Request section. The Core may contact users requesting additional information or processing details, when needed.
  • After the request is approved, the Core will email the user to schedule a sample drop off time.
  • Upon project completion, the user will receive an email notifying that the project is ready, and the samples/data are ready for pickup. Charges will be submitted upon completion of the work.
  • We ask users that they acknowledge the HSS Molecular Histopathology Core Laboratory in publications or presentations that include Core resources.

Services Provided (fee for service)

  • Project consultation
  • Fixation & processing (without/ with decalcification: we use EDTA as default)
  • Sectioning (FFPE and cryosections)
  • Histological stains (including, but not only, H&E, Safranin-0, Massons Trichrome)
  • Whole slide imaging, brightfield (Zeiss Axioscan 7)

Services in development - please consult with the Core

  • lmmunostaining
  • Whole slide imaging, polarized light and fluorescence (Zeiss Axioscan 7)
  • Imaging, brightfield and fluorescence (Zeiss Axio Observer)
  • Spatial transcriptomics (Xenium in situ platform)
  • Computational pathology (please consult with the Core)