Inventors:
Stephen Mastorides - Tampa FL, US
Carlos Cordon-Cardo - New York NY, US
International Classification:
C12M001/34, A23G001/22, B23B003/10
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for creating a cryoarray of frozen tissue cores using a cryoarray system. Such system comprises a tissue mold, an embedding medium and a cryoarray device. The cryoarray device comprises a mold plate, an ejector plate, mold alignment pins, ejector pins, and cryoarray pins. Such method/system may be used for preparing frozen sections with multiple tissue specimens for assays such as in-situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry.