Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“BACKGROUND TO THE INVENTION“Existing tissue sample treatment methods, in some applications, comprise a numb er of steps that areperformed manually. For example, in immunologic application s, such as in-situ hybridization (ISH) andimmunohistochemical (IHC) application s, some steps, including baking a sample onto a slide, dewaxing,and epitope ret rieval, are performed manually by an operator to treat the tissue sample before it can beused in a staining apparatus for staining the tissue sample according to a predetermined staining protocol.
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