45th Annual Conference Coming Fall 2026. Learn More
45th Annual Conference Coming Fall 2026. Learn More
Please take a minute to watch this video. It is an announcement of a Zoom meeting open to all members to discuss and initiate the process for filling to vacancies on our Board of Trustees. It will take place on Friday March 13 at 4:00 PM; a link will be provided by email shortly. Please contact […]
The BSC Laboratory is in the process of moving from its current location in the basement of the University of Rochester to a new space on the first floor of the same building. While in transition, there may be some delay in the processing of new samples submitted for certification, but as always we will do […]
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 research trainees attending the BSC’s 2023 meeting were given free membership for one year. If you […]
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 al. 2002). The following notes (alphabetically by names of dyes) refer to […]
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 revised web site, hosted by IX Web Hosting. Management of this […]
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 searchable PDF files are available for every published article. This archive constitutes a substantial proportion of the technical literature […]
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 (alphabetically by names of stains) refer to new tests, revised standards, and substances added […]
