by LabStorage | 0,March 1, 2023 | LabStore Highlights
Histopathology, both clinical and research, can develop into decades of endless storage and archiving of samples. Many specimens must be kept readily accessible for a short period of time while cases are active, but eventually some degree of prolonged storage will be...
by LabStorage | 0,February 2, 2023 | LabStore Highlights
Due to an increased interest in the subject of simple overlooked safety considerations, a third segment has been added to this series; that of developing an overall consciousness towards personal protection. In this day and age of ‘job’ and ‘work’ mentality, where...
by LabStorage | 0,January 17, 2023 | LabStore Highlights
In Part 1 of this series the emphasis was on basic personal safety practices that are so elementary that they are often overlooked. In this second part our focus is on air quality and the ‘assumed’ environmental safety of the laboratory. Because of chronic exposure...
by LabStorage | 0,December 1, 2022 | LabStore Highlights
While the histopathology laboratory has progressively become more efficient, with a vast diversity in applications and techniques, the replication and monotony of routine tasks have caused some of the most basic safety and security practices to become overlooked or...
by LabStorage | 0,November 2, 2022 | LabStore Highlights
The continuous accumulation of biological specimens in diagnostic anatomic pathology, make the inevitable need for ‘off-site’ storage (OSS) a reality. When the remodeling of rooms/space begins to become a repetitive, every 6 months, project. When the funding for new...
by LabStorage | 0,October 3, 2022 | LabStore Highlights
Within the realm of the clinical Histopathology laboratory (hospital or reference lab), the Hematoxylin & Eosin stain has become a procedural doctrine; validated and written in stone, and rarely, if ever, changed or modified. Typically, this only happens when a...
by LabStorage | 0,September 25, 2022 | LabStore Highlights
In today’s Histopathology laboratory, particularly large volume labs, tissue cassette selection and use has been standardized down to one or two models of cassette; chosen to accommodate the general tissue(s) they work with. With labs predominately working with breast...
by LabStorage | 0,August 1, 2022 | LabStore Highlights
Within the simple basic protocol of slide staining, we see the same science of fluid transfer that is employed in routine tissue processing. Optimal fluid transfer is the foundation of successful, post-fixation, tissue processing steps (dehydration, clearing, wax...
by LabStorage | 0,July 15, 2022 | LabStore Highlights
In the first two articles of this series, we discussed the workflow impediments of Silos and minimal Cross-Training among personnel. It was emphasized that both are extreme liabilities to the laboratory and cause a high frequency of the lab working in crisis mode,...
by LabStorage | 0,June 3, 2022 | LabStore Highlights
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed workplace silos as the first major impediment to optimized workflow. Silos only superficially cover vital tasks or stations within the workflow process, such as accessioning, embedding and microtomy, special stains and...
by LabStorage | 0,May 2, 2022 | LabStore Highlights
Managing today’s multi-disciplinary lab environment is challenging in many aspects. Most clinical (hospital and/or reference lab) environments are marginally to severely understaffed, resulting in a high frequency of crisis situations impeding workflow. Laboratory...
by LabStorage | 0,April 4, 2022 | LabStore Highlights
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the theory and science of wax infiltration in routine tissue processing. A key point stablished was that the basic paraffin molecule is a simple straight chain molecule composed of hydrogen and carbon atoms. However, for the...
