B.S.C. News
BSC Symposium and Annual General Meeting, 5th August 2022
The BSC's 41st annual meeting and symposium was held in Atlanta, GA on 4th-5th August 2022. It should have been our 43rd, but the symposia and annual meetings of the Biological Stain Commission planned for 2020 and 2021 were wisely canceled because of the coronavirus...
Have you paid your membership?
Have you paid your membership? Membership is ordinarily renewable one year after the last payment of dues. Each member should receive an automatically generated email reminder, three weeks before the renewal date. Many graduate students and other clinical and...
Current issues of interest to vendors and users of dyes and biological stains.
Certified dyes [Updated October 2022] The following additions and changes have been made since 2002, the year of publication of the 10th edition of Conn's Biological Stains and of a detailed account of tests then used in the Commission's assay laboratory (Penney et...
Acknowledgements
The first version of the Biological Stain Commission's web site was constructed by Matthew Frank, who also managed the assay laboratory in the early 2000s. The late Dr Alton D. Floyd (1941-2015), formerly Secretary and also a Past President of the BSC, produced a...
Online Journal for BSC Members
If you are a member, the BSC supplements your annual subscription to include the journal Biotechnic & Histochemistry. The subscription includes the complete online archive of Biotechnic & Histochemistry and its predecessor (1925-1991), Stain Technology, Fully...
Certified Dyes
Changes have been made in certification standards since 2002, the year of publication of the 10th edition of Conn's Biological Stains and of the detailed account of tests used in the Commission's assay laboratory (Penney et al. 2002). The following notes...