Laser capture microdissection - newbie (Aug/03/2004 )

Hello all,

Does anyone have any experiences with Laser Capture Microdissection they'd care to share? Before I go that route, I'm interested in learning from anybody's previous adventures with this technology.

Thanks!

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Here is the LCM information link. Hope this helps.

IHC World Laser Capture Microdissection Page

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Thanks for the link!

I'm also interested in hearing about people's "Hands-on" experience with this technology i.e. ease of use, real world sample stringencies etc.

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I'm taking a class in this next week. I would like to know more about it as well. It seems like it will be interesting.

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I took a class in this at the National Institutes of Health (USA). There seem to be several new pieces of equipment that are quite useful. However, only a few types are pure laser-capture. Most of the types involve cutting using a UV laser. It's a very neat process and useful for DNA, RNA and protein extraction.

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