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  Freezing Biological Samples
  

  12. Jan 2012 Authors: Miles Cunningham, Charles W. Scouten, Ph.D. Institutes: McLean Hospital of Harvard University, Belmont, MA, USA, Leica Biosystems, Wetzlar, Germany

  Neuroscience researchers usually need to see slices of whole brain in order to determine the location in brain of detail they are viewing under the microscope. The brain needs to be hardened to allow cutting the thin slices, unless a vibrating blade microtome, which is much slower, is used. Read article