Slide 1 Welcome! Slide 2 Intro slide Slide 3 It's nice to meet you! Welcome to the Histology Hacks in Cryosectioning webinar. I am Dr. Marla Rivera-Oliver, and I am very excited to share today some tips and tricks I've learned during my ten years of experience working on basic and translational research. I am based in the Dallas, Texas, area of the United States, and in my current role, I support customers from North Texas and Oklahoma. I completed a bachelor's in biology from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico and a doctoral degree in Neurobiology from the University of Puerto Rico. I specialized in the spinal cord injury field and honed my skills in Cryosectioning, imaging, and in vivo electrophysiology. Then, I moved into a post-doctoral position at the Center for D...

Following our two-part webinar series of Tips & Tricks to Better Histology, further questions were raised by customers referring to specific issues encountered during histology/staining practice. Some of these questions are answered here to help combat issues experienced in the laboratory. 

Following our 2-part webinar series of Tips & Tricks to Better Histology, questions about histology-related issues were received from customers and answered by Leica Biosystems. Here, in Histology Tips & Tricks: Questions and Answers, Part 2, more questions are answered, specifically regarding decalcifying agents, and tissue section bubbling/cracking.

There has always been pressure on the Histology Lab to do more with less money, less people and less time. Automation in Histology has somewhat stalled over the past few years and is difficult to implement. Automation is only a multi-disciplinary process to...

When was the last time that your pathologist brought you a slide of decalcified bone, and said it was the best she ever saw? Ever wonder why your PAS stain is not staining the basement membrane the way it should? These questions and 18 others will be discussed...

Skin specimens received in the histology laboratory for dermatopathology are among the most difficult to handle successfully. The pathologist must be able to see the dermal-epidermal junction in each tissue section in order to make a diagnosis, thus every skin...

This straightforward guide to good histology practice provides practical advice on best-practice techniques and simple ways to avoid common errors.