Very good everything you said EXCEPT for "Post-doc are not tech and never will be" because anybody and everybody that is willing to learn and pay attention to what they do CAN and WILL become a good tech. 
Being a tech is NOT a genetic trait within the great scheme of evolution, you know?
René J.

--- On Wed, 8/27/08, Bernice Frederick  wrote:

From: Bernice Frederick 
Subject: RE: [Histonet] (para)formaldehyde (was: in situ question)
To: "'Mikael Niku'" , "'Tony Henwood'" , histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu, "'Geoff McAuliffe'" 
Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 8:39 AM

We receive tissue from researchers that was fixed in PFA. It goes into 10%
NBF once it hits the processor. Sort of becomes s moot point for us. A lot
of times it's a result of reading a VERY old paper or method (or so
we've
discovered)and they don't know any better. Post-docs are not techs and
never
will be.
Bernice


Bernice Frederick HTL (ASCP)
Northwestern University
Pathology Core Facility
Histology supervisor
ECOGPCO-RL 
710 N Fairbanks Court
Olson 8-421
Chicago,IL 60611
312-503-3723

      
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