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Study data from University of Alabama provide new insights into life sciences

Published in Blood Weekly, April 29th, 2010

"Double staining techniques often are avoided in the immunohistochemistry laboratory. However, they allow the pathologist the ability to compare staining pattern,, Of tumor cells on the same slide," researchers in the United States report.

"The Ki-67 antibody is used to determine the proliferative rate of tumors. This antibody is clinically important for diagnosis and treatment decisions because the amount of staining is proportional to the grade of a tumor. Higher-grade tumors are going to be treated differently and more aggressively by the clinicians as compared with their lower-grade counterparts. The problem with using the stain alone is that there are often normal...

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