• Question: what bits of the body do you cut up? we stained onilon tissue is that similar or not?

    Asked by esmelski to Del, John, Catherine on 12 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by , , , , , , .
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      Adelle Thrower answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      Hi
      I cut up pretty much all parts of the body- it’s a lot of skins as many people have moles removed. We do a lot of screening for bowel diseases so lots of biopsies from the oesophagus, rectum, ilium, duodenum etc.
      Tonsils, gallbladders, appendix everything!
      I do not deal with post mortums so all the specimens I receive are from living people so I wouldn’t get an entire brain or heart- but I do gets bits of brain.
      All living things are made up of cells and all cells whether from humans or an onion have similar properties like a nucleus and cytoplasm so it is kinda similar
      What stain did you use to visualise the cells?

    • Photo: John Foster

      John Foster answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      I get samples of cancerous tissue from the lungs of lung cancer patients.

    • Photo: Catherine Mansfield

      Catherine Mansfield answered on 20 Mar 2014:

      I get human hearts to dissect!

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