Each year NSH features a robust poster program at its annual convention . This past week during the 2023 Annual Convention in Baltimore, NSH featured 38 incredible posters that all provided interesting information, scientific data, and breakthroughs in the field of histotechnology ...
Historically, when the words tissue microarray have been mentioned it was considered as a “research only" tool, but in today’s lab that couldn’t be further from the truth! The Tissue Microarray (TMA) has become an important and integral tool in the ever growing histology laboratory, if utilized...
As histology professionals, we have several roles we play in the laboratory, but one of the more challenging tasks can be that of troubleshooting. Histology professionals are often presented with slides from a pathologist that are less than exceptional quality with very little supporting...
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Tissue microarrays (TMAs) are becoming increasingly popular in histology research and for use as a quality control method in both research and clinical labs. A TMA paraffin block is termed the “recipient block” as it contains cylindrical tissue cores from different “donor blocks.” The...
Anytime I hear a histotech talk about cutting nails it’s usually universally negative. It can be a battle to cut a nail block and create suitable sections. There is so much to consider to increase your success rate, like how to face in, if or how to soften the nail and what additives to use in...
The Importance of Paraffin Presented by Heather Renko-Breed, HT(ASCP)QIHC Description This webinar will be an exploration of paraffin and what makes it so unique to the world of Histotechnology This webinar is part of the 2023 Laboratory Webinar Program. ...
12-20-2023 | 13:00 - 14:00 ET
IHC Validations Presented by Dr. Ken Kao, PhD Description This webinar will review the principles of immunohistochemistry protocol optimization and approaches to validate an optimized protocol. The advantage of standard pre-analytical processing will be...
11-15-2023 | 13:00 - 14:00 ET
Tissue Contaminants Presented by Valerie Cortright, HTL(ASCP)QIHC Description Histologists and surgical pathologists are familiar with the phenomenon of the tissue contaminant (TC) or floater. Although TCs are unusual events, and the majority of contaminants...
10-25-2023 | 13:00 - 14:00 ET
Histology in Vet Medicine Presented by Dr. Keiichi Kuroki, DVM Description Histology plays a pivotal role in Veterinary Medicine and histotechnologists are indispensable. For example, veterinary pathologists at the University of Missouri’s Veterinary Medical...
09-27-2023 | 13:00 - 14:00 ET
There are different embedding techniques utilized by histotechnology professionals, but no matter which method your lab uses, there are key factors that can affect the quality of embedding. These include: sample thickness, tissue orientation, quality of paraffin wax, mold and cassette types,...