[Histonet] Cutting research blocks from home?

[Emily Sours]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Kimberly Tuttle <ktuttle <@t> umm.edu> wrote:
> Is there anyone on the list who does this? How is a "basement lab" regulated? If you dont do any staining and only cut unstained, therefore no reagents, is there no need to be regulated?
>

I would look into the institutions from who(m?) you're getting the
specimens.  They might not let anyone take the tissue off of the
facility grounds.  With a university lab, we can't even move tissue to
another lab without filling out forms.  Also, human tissue is BSL-2,
at least, right?

Emily
-- 
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them
down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.