Art of the Stain Voting

Vote For Your Favorite Stain!


In celebration of Histology Professionals Day (HPD) on March 10, NSH hosted its annual Art of the Stain Contest.

All submissions have been collected and you can now cast your vote for your favorite stain until March 21. One vote per person.

The winning stain will be incorporated into our 2025 logo.


Cast Your Vote

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#1

Stain: Masson's Trichrome 
Tissue: Liver Portal Area Gull

#2

Stain: Multiplex Immunofluorscense
Tissue: 3D Tumor Spheroids

#3

Stain: Periodic Acid-Schiff (PAS)
Tissue: Glandular epithelial cells A



#4

Stain: Immunohistochemistry for Keratin Protein
Tissue: Skin



#5

Stain: PASF
Tissue: Wild Mushroom
Additional Information: Found a mushroom in the woods and we performed a fungus PAS stain

#6

Stain: GMS
Tissue: Nail

#7

Stain: Movat
Tissue: Colon

#8

Stain: Mucicarmine
Tissue: Colon

#9

Stain: HRP Black
Tissue: Prostate Staining with Nuclear Fast Red Counterstain



#10

Stain: H&E
Tissue: GI



#11

Stain: Masson's Trichrome
Tissue: Skeletal Muscle
Additional Information: Human skeletal muscle biopsy

#12

Stain: Oil Red O
Tissue: Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts (MEFs) cell lines




#13
Stain: Opal Multiplex
Tissue: Human Glioblastoma Organoid

#14

Stain: H&E
Tissue: Parotid Excision

#15

Stain: Colloidal Iron
Tissue: Small Intestine
Additional Information: Control Tissue

#16
Stain: Reticulin 
Tissue: Liver



#17
Stain: Hematoxylin and Eosin
Tissue: Prostate



#18
Stain: Hematoxylin & Eosin
Tissue: Testis




#19
Stain: Giemsa
Tissue: Haired Skin
Additional Information: When your histology slide stares back at you

#20
Stain: Movat's Pentachrome
Tissue: Human artery with elastin deteriorating
Additional Information: Human arterial pathology

#21
Stain: Immunofluorescence 
Tissue: Mouse Colon


#22

Stain: Immunofluorescence 
Tissue: Mouse Colon




#23
Stain: Warthin-Starry
Tissue: Helico-bacter Pylori infected stomach




#24

Stain: Luxol Fast Blue
Tissue: Spinal Cord

#25
Stain: Immunofluorescent GFAP (pink) Lectin (green)
Tissue: Mouse retina, whole mount
Additional Information: GFAP stains astrocytes, lectin stains blood vessels. This was taken on an LSM 800, from Zeiss at 20X magnification.

#26
Stain: Gomori Trichrome
Tissue: GI


#27
Stain: Reticulin
Tissue: Live

#28
Stain: H&E
Tissue: Skin
Additional Information: Sarcoptes Mike in Canine Skin

#29
Stain: Verhoeff Van Gieson
Tissue: Artery

#30
Stain: Toulidine Blue
Tissue: Fish Eye
Additional Information: Section of a full fish, this is the eyeball!

#31
Stain: Prussian Blue
Tissue: Elephant Skin

#32
Stain: Trichrome
Tissue: Liver
Additional Information: This was our employee of the month, Rubber-to, the rubber chicken!

#33
Stain: CK903 (34BETAE12)
Tissue: Prostate Cores
Additional Information: 

#34
Stain: Masson's Trichrome
Tissue: Unknown

#35
Stain: Pentachrome
Tissue: Lung

#36
Stain: Russel Movat Pentachrome
Tissue: Stented Artery

#37
Stain: Diff-Quik & PAS
Tissue: Lung fine needle aspiration

#38
Stain: H&E
Tissue: Peritoneum
Additional Information: Giant cells with psammomatous calcifications


#39
Stain: GMS
Tissue: Colon



#40
Stain: Mucicarmine
Tissue: GI


#41
Stain: PAS
Tissue: GI



#42
Stain: PAS - Light Green Yellowish Counterstain
Tissue: Bat Wing infected with Pseudogymnoascus destructans (White-nose syndrome)

#43
Stain: GMS
Tissue: Wood Frog Apidose



#44
Stain: Movat Pentachrome
Tissue: Dog Jaw in the area of the dental root


#45
Stain: Hemotoxylin & Eosin
Tissue: Corti Organ Pigeon

#46
Stain: GMS
Tissue: Kidney
Additional Information: Intralesional fungal hyphae


#47
Stain: Corte semifino con azul de toluidina
Tissue: Rinon

#48
Stain: H&E
Tissue: Cat's eye

#49
Stain: HIC
Tissue: Kidney
Additional Information: 3 microns

#50
Stain: H-SaiGon
Tissue: Cardiac Muscle

#51
Stain: H&E 
Tissue: Gut Biopsy

#52
Stain: Immunofluorescence 
Tissue: Mouse Brain

#53
Stain: H&E
Tissue: Foreign body giant cells
Additional Information: love found in a sea of inflammatory cells

#54
Stain: H&E
Tissue: Intestinal Mucosa
Additional Information: Jigsaw puzzle

#55
Stain: Trichrome
Tissue: Acantholytic Subungual Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Additional Information: the animal this sample is from is canine

#56
Stain: MSB
Tissue: Placenta