Histology Laboratory Capabilities

The histology laboratory at CBI has a wide range of capabilities spanning all aspects of paraffin, frozen and plastic slide preparation, staining and evaluation.  The laboratory offers the following:

• Routine paraffin slide preparation – gross trimming-processing-embedding-sectioning-staining
• Routine and special histochemical staining
• Cytology and smears
• Plastic and ground sections
• Frozen sections
• Immunohistochemistry, Immunofluoresence, In Situ Hybridization
• Antibody cross reactivity studies
• Tissue arrays and HistoChip™
• Megasections
• Special techniques: tissue/organ whole mounts, retinal whole mounts, brain mapping, gelatin techniques
• Complete human tissue bank
• Digital image analysis and histomorphometry
• QAU, GLP, high quality, complete reporting