The cap is then placed into an Eppendorf tube and the science begins. An archival workstation allows photographic documentation of every step. Blood smears, cytologic preparations, cell cultures and aliquots of solid tissue have been utilized in cell lifting. Frozen and paraffin embedded archival tissue can be used. DNA and RNA retrieval has been successful on formalin or alcohol fixed paraffin embedded tissues.
Frozen tissue is still necessary for protein analysis.
Staining Histochemical, immunohistochemical and fluorescent staining can be used on tissues to be microdissected. These techniques have not been shown to interfere with the scientific analyses. All rights reserved.