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A New Carminic acid – Will Wonders Never Cease?

by jkiernan | May 17, 2021 | News About Dyes and Stains, What's New

Richard W. Dapson writes, on 17th May 2021: Carminic acid and its aluminum lake, carmine, are important histological dyes, but commercial trade in these products has undergone massive shifts in the last few decades due to market forces way beyond histology. Originally...

Are fluorescent probes biological stains?

by jkiernan | Apr 29, 2021 | News About Dyes and Stains, What's New

Are fluorescent probes biological stains?   On 29th April 2021 Richard W. Horobin wrote: There are various communities of clinical lab workers who use “traditional” microscopic staining methods, such as hematoxylin and eosin, and the Gram or Papanicolaou stains....

Terminology of Staining. Online Glossary.

by jkiernan | Feb 11, 2019 | News About Dyes and Stains

In December 2018 the Biological Stain Commission published Version 1.0 of an online glossary of words, names and short phrases relating to staining and histotechnique, including fixation, tissue processing and, of course, staining – with dyes, histochemical methods...

Current issues of interest to vendors and users of dyes and biological stains.

by jkiernan | Jan 10, 2015 | B.S.C. News, News About Dyes and Stains, What's New

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...

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