Contact details and costs for the Histology Research Service Helen Caldwell h.caldwell@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 651 8786 Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre University of Edinburgh Western General Hospital Crewe Road South Edinburgh EH4 2XR The histology research service lab have tissue processors allowing fixed tissues to be processed through to paraffin wax, microtomes for section cutting and access to a variety of light microscopy stains including routine H&E, PSR, PAS, PBR, Reticulin, Masson Trichrome, Elastic and Orcein. Sections for immunocytochemistry, DNA or RNA recovery can also be cut and immunohistochemistry can be performed on the cut sections if required. A cryostat is also available for frozen section cutting. Document Histology Research Service request form (15.4 KB / DOCX) Costs Each or per slide Tissue Processing to FFPE blocks £8.66 IHC/Blank Sections £4.55 Stains; H&E cut and stain £3.75 Masson Trichrome £4.04 Von Kossa £4.04 Toluidine blue £2.31 Other stains available, please ask for cost Cryostat sections £4.55 Cryostat self use £10.00/hour Microtome self use £10.00/hour IHC £11.06 slide, primary antibody to be supplied Technical time for imaging set up £46.20/hour Section/curl for RNA/DNA extractions £2.21 This article was published on 2024-08-27
